Church Of St Petrock

The Church of St Petrock is a parish church dating back to the 15th century. The tower was rebuilt in 1708 and has a 19th-century roof, while the chancel was restored in 1862 and the remainder of the church in 1882. An early 20th-century vestry was also added. The church was restored in 1862 by E Christian. It is constructed of slate, ironstone, and red sandstone random rubble with Ham stone dressings, and Treborough slate roofs with a slight bell-cast to the nave.

The church consists of a three-bay nave, chancel, a three-bay south aisle, a south-east chapel now used as an organ chamber, a north porch, a south-west vestry, and a west tower. The two-stage tower has a pyramid slate roof with crenellations incorporating quatrefoil pierced merlons, shields, pinnacles and gargoyles. It has two-light louvred bell openings under a hood mould, a clock, and a blocked semi-circular headed opening with a lancet below on its south front. The west end is unlit. A single-storey, flat-roofed vestry adjoins the south side with a door and a three-light window. The nave has one two-light and three three-light cinquefoil headed mullioned windows, with a chimney on the east end and a two-light window. The south wall of the chancel features a two-light mullioned window and a three-light window at the east end. The south wall also has two trefoil headed mullions flanking a moulded four-centred arch leading to a priest's door, with a rood stair projection and a lancet window. A gabled porch has three-light windows on either side of a pointed arch opening with a wagon roof containing moulded ribs, bosses, and a renewed wall plate. The C15-C16 inner door is chamfered with a Tudor arch surround and original metalwork.

Inside, the walls are rendered, with remains of wall painting above a blocked door in the south aisle wall. A C19 arch braced roof is supported by corbels and an earlier wall plate in the nave, while the nave and aisle have C19 and renewed open wagon roofs. A four-bay Perpendicular arcade is decorated with vine leaves and shields to the central capital. The semi-circular tower arch is filled with C18 raised and fielded panelling, reset as a pivotal screen and featuring a carved winged cherub above. A rood loft stair and door are also present. A late C15 five-bay fan vaulted screen is in good condition, with a renewed frieze on the chancel side. A C20 oak-panelled dado screen is located in the organ bay. Features include an ogee headed aumbry with a shelf, a Perpendicular octagonal font, a fine Jacobean pulpit, and a few moulded C17 bench ends, alongside others in the same style. A marble tablet commemorates Mary Whitehead, who died in 1841, and was made by Pearse of Minehead.