Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is an early 14th-century church located on Chacombe Church Lane. It is constructed from squared coursed limestone and ironstone, topped with slate and lead roofs. The church features a chancel, a nave with a clerestory, a south porch, and a west tower. The east chancel window is in the Decorated style with three lights and reticulated tracery, which has been renewed. The windows in the north and south walls are also Decorated, featuring two lights with flowing tracery, all of which have been renewed. There is a priests' doorway in the south wall and a three-light east window in the south aisle with a 4-centred head from the 14th century. The west window is similar but has renewed tracery. The south windows are all Decorated with two lights and flowing tracery, while a window west of the porch was renewed in the 20th century. The south porch and south doorway are also Decorated, featuring a studded ribbed plank door with decorative ironwork, likely medieval.

The west tower, dating from the 14th century, has three stages and a castellated parapet. The ground stage of the tower features a window similar to the east and west arcades in the south aisle. The north aisle contains two-light Decorated windows in the south and west walls, along with a plain two-light square-headed window at the north-east corner. The east window is Victorian, and there is a blocked 16th to 17th-century doorway with a 4-centred arch and square hood in the west wall.

Inside, there is a 14th-century piscina recess with a trefoiled head in the chancel. The north and south arcades each consist of three bays with double chamfered arches and octagonal piers with quatrefoil capitals. The font is Romanesque, circular, and carved with a blind arcade of intersecting arches. There is a brass memorial to Michael Fox, who died in 1569 but was made around 1545, depicting 'The Trinity' with heraldic shields. Additionally, there is a wall painting in the jamb of the north-east window in the north aisle, dating from the 14th century, showing the Crucifixion of St. Peter.