Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with a west tower likely dating from the 13th century. The main body of the church was extensively rebuilt between 1879 and 1881, although details of the windows suggest earlier fabric from the 14th century and possibly before. It is constructed from local stone rubble with slate roofs and features crested ridge tiles to the nave and chancel. The church's layout includes a west tower, nave, chancel, a south porch, and a north-east vestry.

The 1879-81 restoration included re-roofing, a new chancel arch, and replacement or repair of windows in a Decorated style. The chancel has a 3-light 19th-century Decorated east window, a round-headed 1-light window on the south side (possibly from the 12th century), and an unusual square-headed 2-light north window, likely from the 14th century, with trefoil-headed lights. The south side of the nave features a renewed 2-light 15th-century window with carved label stops to the west, and a renewed 14th-century 2-light Perpendicular window to the east of the porch. The west tower is 3-stage, battlemented and includes no west door. It features a 2-light 19th-century west window and 2-light belfry openings on all four faces. The gabled north-east vestry has a transomed 2-light north window and a square-headed, chamfered west doorway. The porch has a 2-centred inner and outer doorway, the inner doorway with pyramid stops, and features an arched brace roof and timber-topped benches.

Inside, the walls are plastered. A plain 2-centred tower arch leads into the nave, and a 19th-century double-chamfered chancel arch, with polychromatic stone corbels on the inner order, defines the chancel. A 19th-century boarded wagon roof covers the nave and chancel, and a 19th-century archway leads to the vestry. The chancel fittings are of the 19th century, including tiling, a communion rail, and poppy-head choir stalls. A reused 16th-century timber frieze serves as a reredos, and a 17th-century altar table stands within the chancel. The nave contains a 17th-century timber lectern on a turned stem, an altered 19th-century timber drum pulpit, and a font, dating from approximately 1200, with a fluted bowl and moulded stem. A collection of circa early 16th-century carved bench ends, fixed to later benches and extended in the 19th century, are found in the nave. The carvings feature foliage, profile heads, and blind tracery. Various 17th and 18th-century memorial stones are incorporated into the floor, displaying verses and armorial bearings. The east window contains a memorial date of 1887, likely by Drake of Exeter.