Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is an Anglican parish church located in Rodmarton, with origins likely dating back to the Norman period. It features some surviving elements from the 13th and 14th centuries and underwent restorations in 1862 and 1884. The church is constructed of coursed rubble stone, partially faced in roughcast, and has a stone slate roof with coped gables, an old cross finial at the west end, and kneelers, along with a saddlestone at the apex of the north transept gables.

The layout includes a nave with a south porch, a north transept, a south transeptal tower, and a spire that is adjacent to a chapel and a chancel. The west end of the nave features an embattled parapet on the south side, with a string course and carved heads at the eaves level on both sides. The south porch has a large pointed archway that leans out on the right side, a three-light square-headed Perpendicular window to the left, and a mass dial on the quoin in the south-west corner. On the north side, there is a similar two-light window with a blocked doorway below.

The tower consists of two stages on a plinth, with a recessed octagonal spire rising from a hipped lead roof, topped by a weathercock. Each face of the tower has a single square-headed stone louvred belfry light, and the upper stage features 19th-century cross tiebar plates. The lower stage has a two-light early Decorated window on the south side. The south chapel includes a three-light window with round-arched lights, a small priest's door with an ogee head, and a three-light east window from the 19th century, flanked by two-light Perpendicular windows to the north transept and a Decorated window to the south chapel.

Inside, the church retains original arch-braced collar beam roofs in both side chapels. The chancel contains a series of wall tablets, primarily dedicated to the Lysons family, who served as vicars of Rodmarton during much of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. There is also a large marble monument in the south chapel commemorating John Coxe, who died in 1730. The arch between the chancel and the south chapel features a panelled soffit in the Perpendicular style.