Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with origins dating back to the 15th century, featuring fabric in the nave walls and tower. The tower underwent alterations in 1638, while the chancel was built and the church restored in 1877. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings and has slate roofs. The building includes a small, narrow west tower that has an embattled parapet and small bell-openings on the south and north sides, the latter displaying two dates from 1638 related to the tower's alterations.

To the left of the south porch is a 19th-century two-light window, and the porch itself has gabled slate roofs, rough stone voussoirs for the outer doorway arch, and a 19th-century semi-circular headed timber casing that possibly conceals an earlier inner doorframe. The east end of the chancel features a 19th-century stepped three-light lancet window. There are also two straight-headed windows with two virtually semi-circular-headed lights; the left window is from the 19th century, while the right window retains much of its original Perpendicular stonework, including a labelled hoodmould. On the north side, towards the west end, there is a reset 18th-century nowy-arched slate headstone with an inscription dedicated to members of the Stott family.

Inside, the chancel has a 19th-century scissor-braced roof, while the nave features a common rafter roof with five couples that include archbracing. A west gallery, built in 1731, is eight panels wide and has a winder staircase in the north-west corner. Traces of painted dates and inscriptions can be seen on the central panels of the gallery. The church contains 19th-century furnishings, including a font, pulpit, altar table, and communion rails, as well as wall monuments.

On the north side of the nave, there is a triangular-headed slate monument to Richard Cooke and his wife, who died in 1773 and 1784, respectively, above a square slate tablet commemorating Mary, daughter of Morgan Cooke, who died in 1714, featuring a verse and a skull and hourglass at the base. On the south side of the nave, there are slate wall monuments to Captain John Cooke of Ilfracombe, created by Watts, who died in 1859, and below it, a monument to Margaret, the wife of John Richards, who died in 1641.