Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church with elements dating back to the 13th and 14th centuries, restored in 1879. A south porch was added in 1883, and an organ chamber in 1889. The church is constructed of coursed squared ironstone, with slate roofs over the nave and organ chamber, a copper roof over the south aisle, and plain-tile roofs elsewhere. It consists of a nave, chancel, organ chamber, south aisle, south porch, and a west tower.

The 2-bay chancel features a 3-light Decorated east window with a hood mould. A blocked door and a 2-light Decorated south window, also with a hood mould, are present, alongside a small blocked window or reset piscina displaying a cusped ogee-arched head. The chancel has two offset buttresses to the south, a chamfered plinth to the east end, and a stone-coped gable with kneelers. The organ chamber, located to the north, has a pair of cusped one-light windows.

The nave includes a blocked north door with a large stone lintel and keyblock on imposts, and 2-light Decorated windows with hood moulds on the north side. The clerestory on the south side has a 4-window arrangement, featuring 2-light casement windows with timber lintels on the south-east and south-west, flanked by a pair of one-light windows with chamfered stone surrounds. The north side has two buttresses and plain stone-coped parapets.

The south aisle has a 3-light Decorated east window with renewed tracery and an ogee-moulded surround. Two straight-headed 2-light windows with ogee-arched heads and ogee-moulded surrounds are situated on the south side. The south door, within a porch dating to 1883, has double sunk quadrant mouldings and features red sandstone dressings. The tower's west door displays sunk quadrant-moulded jambs, a chamfered head, and a hood mould, with small lancet windows to the west of the middle stage and gables of the saddleback roof. Two-light bell openings with Y-tracery and hood moulds are also present. The tower has plain stone-coped parapets and diagonal buttresses.

Inside, the chancel’s piscina has a crocketed nodding ogee-arched head. A dado to the sanctuary is formed of cut-down 18th-century panels, incorporating two early 17th-century carved panels and 15th-century tracery heads likely from a former screen. Image brackets flank the east window, and a simple 18th-century communion rail with turned balusters is also present. The nave’s 3-bay south arcade is notable for its octagonal piers, polygonal responds, and double-chamfered arches. The south aisle has an ogee-arched piscina. A triple-chamfered tower arch transitions into plain chamfered piers. The church has 19th-century roofs throughout. 19th-century stained glass is located in the chancel and aisle east windows. The church contains royal arms of George III, painted on board by J. Collins in 1813, alongside a Commandment Board painted on canvas, situated in the tower. A set of simple Perpendicular pews originally from Eydon Church are present in the chancel.