Church Of St Peter, And 2 Pairs Of Gate Piers With Gate

The Church of St Peter, built in 1866 by John Middleton of Cheltenham, is a Grade I listed building. It is constructed from squared and snecked rubble sandstone with white Bath stone dressings, featuring a tiled roof and coped gables adorned with elaborate cross finials. The church has a southwest tower, a four-bay nave with a clerestory, and single-storey north and south aisles. The gabled south porch is decorated with elaborate bargeboard, and the chancel consists of two bays.

The tower is divided into three stages, with string courses and stepped angle buttresses on the lower two stages. It has a large pointed window at the belfry stage, which includes colonnette shafts and carved head label stops, topped by a stone broach spire. The aisle windows are all three-light with varying tracery in the French Gothic style, while the clerestory features four roundels with alternating tracery designs.

Inside, the nave boasts an arched timber roof with large pierced trefoils above and arched windbracing across the rafters. The main trusses are supported on colonnettes with carved capitals resting on richly ornamental corbels. The roofs are painted and stencilled. The arcade consists of four pointed arches on cylindrical piers with richly carved capitals, all made from striped Bath stone and blue Forest stone, with red sandstone upper moulding. The chancel arch also incorporates red sandstone in a striped pattern, featuring Alpha and Omega designs and a foliated cross above.

In the chancel, there is a reredos by Hardman made from several different marbles, which is carved and gilded, along with flanking sedilia and piscina that match. The chancel floor is laid with encaustic tiles. Most of the original pews remain, many with double brass candlesticks featuring a foliage design. The font and pulpit are elaborately crafted from marble and Forest stone, and the chancel windows are also by Hardman. The church has undergone very little alteration.

Additionally, there are two pairs of stone gate piers designed as coped cross gables with elaborate fleur-de-lis finials. A wrought iron gate, featuring ecclesiastical symbols, connects the two pairs, one leading to the south porch and the other located approximately 50 meters from the west door.