Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church that was completely rebuilt in 1883. It features dressed stone that is roughly brought to course in some areas, with rubble stone in others, and has a slate roof with a continuous ridge running over the nave and chancel. At the west end, there is a low tower topped with a pyramidal slate roof.

On the south side, there are three gabled projections that house the vestry, transept, and porch. The porch contains a plain round-arched doorway, above which is a slate sundial by John Berry, dated 1764. The south door has a chamfered and stopped architrave. The church has 19th-century fenestration throughout, including a two-light, two-centred arch east window with intersecting tracery. The south windows of the transept and vestry are three-light and two-light, respectively, with the transept windows featuring hoodmoulds. On the north side, there are two two-light windows and a three-light west window that includes a trefoil motif in the spandrels and a hoodmould.

Inside, the church has a plain appearance with plastered walls. The nave and chancel are combined under a late 19th-century arch-braced roof, and the furnishings are also from the late 19th century. A 13th-century font with a square bowl is supported by a cluster of six columns with lipped capitals on a square base, and a painted wooden font cover with a foliated design stands beside it.

There are notable wall monuments, including one in marble on the north wall dedicated to Edward Pointz, dated 1691. This monument features trophies in a broken pediment with weeping angels reclining over a central oval medallion, which is topped by three cherub heads. Corinthian colonnettes flank the medallion, and there are cherubs carrying skulls. A smaller oval medallion below has scrolls and cherub heads on each side, with a skull beneath. Another marble wall monument on the north wall, further east, commemorates Henry Ackland, who died in 1675, and features Corinthian colonnettes on either side of the plaque, with a broken pediment and a plain shield between. Additionally, there are two small 17th-century marble wall plaques facing each other on the south transeptal walls, serving as memorials for the Chichester family.