Church of St Peter

The Church of St Peter was built in 1864 by Henry Woodyer. It is constructed of rough-coursed galleted sandstone with ashlar dressings, and has a plain tiled roof with a wood-shingled broach spire and bellcote. The church comprises a nave and north aisle with a separately roofed chapel to the south, a bellcote to the west, a chancel to the east, a 20th-century vestry to the north-east, and a porch to the south-west. The design incorporates a 13th-century style, featuring offset buttresses and paired lancet windows with smooth ashlar surrounds. The south side has quatrefoil panels between windows, while the chapel features diagonal and clasping buttresses. The exterior includes a plinth and sill course to four “shouldered” lancets beneath a continuous hood moulding, along with a trefoil window and door within a shallow break on the chapel’s west end while the chancel has coved eaves and an apsidal east end. The north side has three paired and one single lancet window. The west front showcases a three-light window with blind quatrefoils, nook shafts, and three louvred openings to each face of the bellcote. A gabled porch to the south has braced entrance posts, a V-strut roof, and arched openings on the sides; the south door is outlined with roll moulding.

The interior retains an unusually complete mid-Victorian decorative scheme. Nave walls are painted with the "miraculous draught of fishes" in gold and blue, dating from 1890, and the nave has a patterned tile floor. The window surrounds feature detached nook shafts and rear arches. The chancel and apse are richly decorated, with cusped and gilded roof rafters. The deep east lancet has been incorporated into a rich composition with the wall surface used as a reredos, incorporating mosaic and marble inlay. The soffit of the chancel arch is richly decorated, featuring candleholder sconces in the shape of angels with stencilled decoration. A font from the previous church, dated 1690, is square in shape with a stone bowl and a square stem. A 15th-century rood screen was restored in 1864 and decorated by Hardman and Powell, complemented by stained glass also by them. A monument to William Middlefield, who died in 1785, is located on the west wall; executed in a Neo-Classical style by T. Hews, it comprises grey marble with flanking Cherubim and a mourning female figure in Classical dress, alongside an inscription panel with scrolls and garlands flanking an oval relief.