Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church with Norman origins, primarily dating from the 13th century, with some 15th-century details, an early 16th-century west tower, a Victorian south porch, and restoration work completed in 1880. The building features flint walls, which are plastered in several areas, along with stone dressings and rubble stonework in the chancel. The tower is constructed of flint with an irregular pattern of large stone blocks, and there is a brick gable on the south transept. The roof is tiled, with extensions on the north side aisle and vestry, separate roofs for the south aisle and transept, and dormers on the nave.

The nave consists of three bays and includes both a north aisle and a south aisle, both of which have been extended to the west. The chancel has a north aisle (vestry) and a south transept known as the Curle Chapel. The oldest structure is found within the square piers at the west of the nave, while the mid-13th-century arcade features octagonal columns. The chancel arch dates to around 1300, the transept to 1270, and the chancel walls to around 1330. A smaller west tower was replaced in 1525 by a wider structure that remains narrower than the nave, which is marked by three arches on two octagonal columns. The original windows include coupled lancets with ogee heads in the chancel and lancets in the east wall of the south transept, along with a Perpendicular window on the south side of the nave.

Inside, the transept or Curle Chapel contains a recess between the deep splays of the lancets, featuring a traceried arch on slender shafts and a sunk recess with a stone table supported by heads on a column. A piscina is set diagonally in the southeast corner, and there is a 15th-century tomb embedded in the south wall. Additionally, a large wall monument from 1736 is located at the east end of the north aisle, featuring a bust within an ornate classical framework, along with several baroque wall monuments from 1678, 1688, and 1698, as well as others of later date and lesser scale. Outside the south transept, there is a crude stone sarcophagus, likely of Roman origin, that was unearthed in the area.