Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating from the mid-15th century, with substantial rebuilding in 1873-4. The 1870s work was undertaken by J B Green for Viscount Portman. The church is constructed of ashlar and snecked rubble, with slate roofs and gable stone copings. It comprises a nave, chancel, north and south aisles, a west tower, and north and south vestries.

The west tower is of three stages with a 19th-century parapet, gargoyles, and pinnacles. It incorporates diagonal buttresses, one containing a niche, a three-light pointed west window with Perpendicular tracery under a label with carved stops, an octagonal 19th-century vice on the south side, a two-light pointed window with Perpendicular tracery on the second stage, and two-light pointed, Perpendicular tracery belfry windows. The 19th-century additions feature unusually designed tracery under pointed or segmental-pointed heads. The east window is a five-light design with Perpendicular tracery, set beneath a pointed head.

Inside, a reset 12th-century south doorway features a round, chevron arch with an enriched tympanum shaped to form a segmental arch, shafted responds with carved, scalloped capitals and moulded bases. A reset 12th-century chancel arch in the north wall of the chancel has a pointed, chevron-decorated head of two orders and shafted responds with carved capitals and moulded bases. The three-bay aisles are characterized by moulded segmental-pointed arches on piers of four clustered shafts. The restored 15th-century tower arch has three orders, the innermost springing from 19th-century carved angel corbels. The church has a 19th-century arch braced collar truss roof with pendants and king-posts, also springing from carved angel corbels. The tie-beam chancel roof springs from foliage carved corbels. Other interior features include a traceried stone pulpit, a 12th-century font with a round bowl decorated with scrollwork on a cylindrical stem, a moulded base with masks in the spandrels, a 19th-century tent-shaped stone font cover with pierced spandrels, a reset 17th-century brass monument to Dorothy Williams in the vestry, various 19th-century monuments, and 19th-century glass.