Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church dating from the late 15th century, with a significant restoration in 1868 carried out by Slater and Carpenter. It is constructed of squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The church comprises a nave, south aisle, west tower, south porch, and a chancel. The architectural style is predominantly perpendicular.

The west tower is two storeys high and features a moulded plinth, a parapet with crocketted finials, weathered strings, diagonal buttresses, a south-west buttress, a rectangular vice turret with loops and a parapet string course with corner gargoyles. The west doorway has a four-centred moulded head within a square surround, and a three-light panel tracery window is above. The upper stage of the tower contains two-light belfry windows with quatrefoils. Windows throughout the nave, aisles, and chancel are mainly of three lights with panel tracery and hood moulds, culminating in a five-light east window. The north facade incorporates a parapet with blind brattishing, a string course with gargoyles, a moulded plinth, and buttresses. The south aisle has an embattled parapet, string course with gargoyles and diagonal buttresses, and a reset 14th-century two-light window. The south porch features plinths, string courses, a parapet, diagonal buttresses, and a semi-circular moulded arch. Internally, the nave arcade has two-centred arches on three-quarter shafts with moulded capitals. A carved head with foliage emerging from the nostrils is present on one respond. A rood vice doorway has a chamfered four-centred head. A squint connects the aisle and chancel, and wagon roofs are found in the nave and chancel, while the south aisle has an intersecting moulded beam roof. A two-centred chancel arch with blind tracery and a two-centred tower arch are also present. A late 12th-century font, a small recumbent effigy in a niche and reset 12th-century head-corbels are noteworthy features. 19th-century pews, a pulpit, and fittings are elsewhere. A tower screen and reredos, dating from the early 20th century and attributed to Rev. G. A. Coleman and Ringrose, are part of the interior. 17th-century wall tablets are reset under the tower. Carvings on the east window and capitals of the pillars were executed by Grassby.