Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with a tower dating back to the 13th century, a nave, chancel, and south aisle from the 15th century. It was enlarged and altered in the 18th century and heavily restored and largely rebuilt between 1867 and 1868 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The church is constructed of roughly coursed stone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with coped gable ends and apex crosses.

The unbuttressed tower has an embattled parapet and bell openings featuring two slender cusped-headed lights on each face and one tall lancet near the base on the north side. Pointed blocked arches are present on the west and east sides. The fenestration is largely Perpendicular in style, with a four-light east window in the chancel and a five-light window in the south aisle. The north side of the nave has one two-light and three three-light windows, while the west end has two three-light windows—one featuring human head corbels to its pointed arch hoodmould. The south side of the aisle has four three-light windows. A largely 15th-century south porch features a moulded, virtually semi-circular arched doorway with engaged shafts with rolled capitals. A slate sundial sits above the doorway, and a stoup is positioned to the right.

Inside, the church has a 19th-century seven-bay Perpendicular style arcade. The waggon roof is intact, with moulded longitudinal members and a central rib featuring variously carved bosses and demi-bosses at the intersections, with carved figures sitting on stone carved corbels along the wall plates. A semi-circular arched inner door, with a moulded surround, leads to an old studded six-plank door with horizontal boarding and an old lock on the inner face. The wall plate at the east end of the north side of the nave is decorated with four medieval grotesque heads. The church also contains 20th-century nave furniture, a heavily restored 15th-century wineglass pulpit, and several wall monuments including one to Susanna Davie (died 1694), Richard Slowly, and members of the Harding family. A section of medieval wall painting, said to represent a tower of the Holy City and two angels, is located above a large early 19th-century wall tablet to the Barbor family in the south aisle. Five diamond-shaped hatchments with painted arms are also present. Stained glass windows are found in the chancel east window, the south aisle east window dedicated to William Yeo, and in the north side of the nave, commemorating John Pigot, the former rector.