Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church that began construction in the early 14th century, with most of the building completed in the late 15th to early 16th century. It underwent restoration in the early 19th century, during which the tower was reroofed. The church is finished in roughcast over random rubble and features local Treborough slate roofs.

Architecturally, the church includes a chancel, nave, and an entry through the south tower, which has a southeast vestry. The two-stage tower has a plinth, pilaster quoin strips, a string course, and a pyramid slate roof with overhanging eaves and a soffit board. It features two-light louvred bell openings under a hoodmould, and a slate sundial that has become inaccurate due to a bulge in the wall. The moulded pointed arch opening has been renewed in red sandstone, and there is a chamfered pointed arched inner doorway with a 19th-century door. Access to the ringing chamber is via 11 stone steps, although the floor has been removed.

The vestry has a 19th-century two-light window and an entrance on the east front. The chancel is buttressed, with an east window comprising three cinquefoil-headed lancets under a hoodmould. The north front of the nave has four stepped buttresses and features two and three-light cinquefoil-headed mullioned windows under hoodmoulds. The south front includes a three-light cinquefoil-headed mullioned window and a two-light west window situated between stepped buttresses.

Inside, the church has a rendered interior with a blocked four-centred tower arch that has an inserted 19th-century chamfered Tudor arch opening. The chancel arch is in the Perpendicular style, and the chancel has a 19th-century plastered wagon roof, while the nave features a 19th-century scissor truss roof. A rare Perpendicular pillar piscina is present, featuring an ogee-headed opening with cusping and decorative spandrels, along with a five-sided projecting basin adorned with panels of foliage decoration, set on an attached five-sided pillar. The church also has a Perpendicular octagonal font with foliage decoration on the panels, supported by angels holding scripts.

There are 17th to 18th-century bench ends and a coeval clergy seat, as well as a 19th-century panelled dado in the chancel. A carved wooden half-life-size figure of a person at prayer, created by Rachel Reckett in 1965, is located at the west end. Notably, the west porch that was recorded in the early 19th century has completely disappeared.