Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating from the 12th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 13th, 15th, 17th and 18th centuries, and a restoration in 1896, alongside minor alterations in the early 20th century. The church is constructed primarily of well-squared, coursed stone, with coursed rubble and ashlar dressings to the tower base, and has a stone slate roof.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, west tower, and a south porch. The south facade is dominated by a three-stage tower with a plinth, a square-set buttress to the left, and a wide buttress on the right. The tower features lancet windows and a pair of louvred windows on the upper stage, a moulded string course with corner gargoyles, crenellated parapet, crocketed corner finials, and a central weathervane. The nave has an angled buttressed porch with an arched opening and a moulded surround, an ogee-headed window above with a shelf holding a statue and fleur-de-lys hood, and a parapet with a cross-gablet apex and a floriate cross. To the right are two and three-light Perpendicular windows with flat heads and hoodmoulds, alongside a sundial from 1797 and carved corner details. The chancel is slightly set back and features two 2-light Perpendicular windows, a boarded door within a Tudor arch with carved spandrels and hoodmould, and grotesques supporting a corbelled eaves. The east elevation has a three-light window with curved tracery and a nearly semi-circular head.

The interior features stone walls and a tiled floor to the nave. A low arch leads to the tower, which has moulded 13th-century capitals and bases, with a Norman lancet window above. The chancel arch is similarly detailed, and the roof is a 19th-century collar rafter structure with a king post and purlins. A 17th-century wooden wine-glass pulpit is present, along with a small octagonal stone font with quatrefoils carved on the cardinal sides. Aumbry and carved details are also present. A war memorial with lettering by Eric Gill is incorporated into the chancel windows, and an East window with 17th-century type tracery, believed to be 18th century, is also notable. A gallery was removed during the 1896 restoration; details from this gallery were reused in the churchyard wall.