Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a building of early 12th century and early 14th century origin, with later 16th/17th century and 1850s additions and rebuilding. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with stone slate roofs to the chancel, vestry and the north slope of the north nave aisle, artificial stone slate to the south slope of the north nave aisle, and Welsh slate to the nave. The church comprises a single-bay chancel, a three-bay nave with a north aisle, a vestry set into the angle of the chancel and north aisle, and a 20th-century timber lean-to at the west end of the north aisle.

The chancel’s east gable wall features a 19th-century three-light pointed window with reticulated tracery and hoodmould, along with diagonal offset buttresses, a chamfered plinth, and two similar 19th-century two-light pointed windows with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds to the north and south walls. The north nave aisle has a 19th-century two-light pointed window with reticulated tracery to its east gable, an offset angle buttress, a chamfered plinth, and three similar two-light windows along its north wall. The nave’s south wall contains two 2-light windows with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds, a 19th-century copy to the west, and a Norman lancet window high up to the west of the east window. A 19th-century gabled porch with a moulded stone pointed doorway and hoodmould (with a sundial above) and a Welsh slate roof with a coped gable stands to the west, while the west gable wall incorporates a three-light pointed window with panel tracery and hoodmould and a small single-light window in the gable above, further accentuated by a small bellcote with two bells at its apex.

Inside, the chancel has a two-bay barrel-vaulted ceiling featuring an arch-braced truss supported by carved stone corbels. The north nave aisle has an unplastered barrel vault, while the nave has a segmental plaster ceiling – the walls are unplastered. A three-bay pointed arcade divides the nave and north aisle. The furnishings are simple, with 19th-century pieces and stained glass to the east window of the chancel, the central window of the north wall of the north nave aisle, the Norman window of the south wall of the nave (designed by T.M. Cox in 1927), and the west window of the nave. The chancel contains seven late 18th and early 19th century marble wall memorials, five with urn decoration, and two similar early 19th century memorials with urns to the south wall of the nave. The south door retains its original studded panels, enclosed by a Tudor arched head within a moulded stone surround, and an overdoor within the porch displays a Norman Tree of Life tympanum with a dogtooth lintel.