Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is an Anglican parish church with a 15th-century west tower and a rebuilding of 1858 by John Norton. The church is constructed of rubble with freestone dressings and slate roofs. It comprises a west tower, nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel, and a south chapel, all executed in the Perpendicular style.

The three-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses, a plinth carrying shields, and a south-east polygonal stair turret rising to an ornate top with tiers of cusped panels, a shield bearing angels, crocketed pinnacles, and a conical cap. The first stage of the tower has a west door under a moulded arch with a hoodmould surmounted by an angel, and a three-light pointed window above, the hoodmould ending in regal stops. The second and third stages have single two-light windows per side, blank on the second stage and with quatrefoil tracery on the third. Buttresses rise as crocketed corner pinnacles around a castellated parapet, with an ogee-headed niche containing a statue centrally on each side.

The gabled nave has a castellated parapet and five two-light clerestory windows. The lean-to aisles have similar detailing with three-light windows between buttresses topped by crocketed pinnacles. A similarly dressed, gabled south porch also has diagonal buttresses. The tall gabled chancel is flanked by large pinnacles and dominated by a large five-light east window with a transom and a rose under a crocketed hoodmould with regal stops. Three two-light windows are on the north side, with a quatrefoil plinth. The south chapel has a long three-light window with a transom, and a priest's door under a two-light window with decorated spandrels.

Inside, a very tall wave and hollow moulded tower arch leads to a five-bay arcade with four shafts, four waves to a column. A mock hammer-beam roof rises from corbel shafts between the clerestory windows. A tall chancel arch is situated behind a slender screen and a 20th-century rood, with cusped and crocketed triple sedilia. Fittings include a stone pulpit, a screen with crocketed niches and statues of Peter and Paul, an octagonal font that may predate the church, and a fine pair of chests – one simple Jacobean timber chest and one barrel-topped chest clad in iron on wheels. A memorial brass is inscribed to John Symes 1661. The church contains a series of didactic windows, probably by Bell of Bristol, and a single painted window depicting the Annunciation, with the new church in the background, created by C.L. Burckhardt of Munich in 186-.