Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church dating back to the 13th century, with significant alterations and rebuilding in the 18th and 19th centuries. The tower was rebuilt to its top in 1786, and the church was restored in 1882 by W.O. Milne. The building is constructed of coursed stone to the base of the tower, with rubble stone above and repairs in brick at the top. The south aisle and nave are rendered and pebbledashed, with stone dressings. The roofs are plain tiled, with Horsham slabs to the chancel and wooden shingles on the spire.

The church consists of an aisled nave with a south porch and a southwest vestry. A tower and spire are located at the west end, while a chancel and a north priests' vestry sit at the east and north ends. The tower is two-stage, with a turret on the northeast corner and angle buttressing. The top stage features two-light foil-headed windows, while the first stage has a Victorian single-light window. A Perpendicular style Victorian window is on the west face, and renewed Victorian windows are present on the south side, with Perpendicular style windows to the north aisle. A 14th and 15th century window remains on the south chancel wall.

The west door is in a moulded surround, and the south door is planked with strapwork hinges within a gabled, half-glazed, timbered porch featuring quatrefoil decoration to the arch spandrels.

Internally, the church has three-bay nave arcades; the south arcade is 13th century with round piers and corbelled arches, while a 14th century corbelled chancel arch is set on attached piers with moulded capitals. A blocked 13th century arch leads to a north chapel. Continuous mouldings define the tall and imposing tower arch. Rubble stone walling is revealed in the chancel.

Fittings include a 15th century arched piscina on the south chancel wall and a rood screen, a combination of 16th and 19th century work. A Jacobean pulpit features foliage and band decoration on a stone stem, incorporating both 17th and 19th century elements. The font is a 15th century stone octagonal bowl on a stem dated 1665, displaying quatrefoil decoration and the inscription "HH TW 1665".

The east window, dating from 1890, is a stained-glass work by Edward Burne Jones, produced by Morris and Co., notable for its deep greens and blues. Another Burne-Jones window, dedicated to Mary French, is also in the south east of the south aisle.

Several monuments are present, including brasses on the south chancel wall depicting standing figures of a man and wife (approximately 15 inches tall), a stone plaque dated 1755 to Benjamin Hollingsworth, and a monument to Robert of Fulham, rector from 1305 to 1328. An arched canopy with corbel and roll mouldings covers a chest, and a tomb lid has a foliated cross incised into it. On the north chancel wall is a rectangular tablet to Charles Cullman, who died in 1651, featuring a shield with a coat of arms.

A surviving iron weathervane from the tower's top, dated 1707 and inscribed "IBRC," is set into the south aisle wall. A monument to John Peter Elige by Lupton (1814) is located on the north aisle wall; it consists of a grey stone stele on a white plinth, flanked by scrolls and an apron of guttae. A mourning cherub is above the plinth, along with symbols of an army surgeon's craft: cannons and shields.