Parish Church Of St Peter

The Parish Church of St Peter was built in 1726 and later Gothicised and enlarged by architect G E Street between 1853 and 1854, marking his first use of polychrome brickwork. The church is located on the site of a medieval church that collapsed in 1708. The west tower is made of red brick and features quoins, round arched belfry windows, battlements, and a semi-octagonal stair turret on the south side. The church has a four-bay nave constructed of brick, with a south porch and decorated two-light windows. The three-bay chancel and south chapel are built in polychrome banded brickwork, with stone-dressed gables, angle buttresses, and sill bands, all topped with tiled roofs and decorated windows.

Inside, the chancel has cusped arch braced trusses supporting the roof, along with a sedilium and piscina/aumbry. There are five brasses reset in the north wall, a nine-bay chancel screen made of timber, a pillar pulpit, and a seven-bay reredos featuring blind arcading. The ceiling is coved and flat, adorned with acanthus and geometric friezes created by C B M Smith in 1966 after the collapse of the earlier roof. The church also contains seven funeral hatchments and numerous wall monuments from the 18th and 19th centuries. Stained glass windows by Kempe can be found in the chancel south and nave north.