Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church dating back to the 13th century, with significant additions and alterations in the 15th century. It was restored, re-roofed, and the chancel rebuilt in 1874 by E.F. Law. The church is constructed of uncoursed ironstone and limestone rubble with ironstone ashlar, and has lead roofs. It comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch, and a west tower.

The chancel has a three-light Decorated style window dating to the 19th century on its east side, and two-light Perpendicular windows, each with a straight head, on its north and south sides. The chancel roof is slate, with a stone coped east gable. The nave has two two-light windows with Perpendicular tracery to the north, with offset buttresses marking the angles between bays. It also has a north door with a chamfered sunk, quadrant-moulded arch. To the west of the door is a 19th-century addition with a three-light, straight-headed, Perpendicular style window. The south aisle features a three-light Perpendicular east window, a two-light window to the east of the porch with coupled lancets under a hood mould with label stops, and a single cusped lancet to the west of the porch. The south door is set within a gabled south porch, featuring a round-headed arch on imposts, a triple-hollow-chamfered doorway with a four-centred head, and two-light Perpendicular windows.

The north and south two-stage west tower has a lancet window in a projection on its west wall, and two-light bell openings. All windows have hood moulds, some with label stops. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet, while the rest of the church has plain parapets.

Inside, the nave has a three-bay south arcade featuring circular piers with simple moulded capitals and chamfered round arches. A plain pier is located to the east, and a polygonal respond with a half capital is situated at the westernmost arch. The pointed, double-chamfered north nave windows have deep splays and an intermediate arch. A recessed tomb from the early 14th century is located in the south aisle, with an inscribed slab framed by a cusped arch with ball flower ornament and a crocketted hood mould with foliage finial. The north and south doors have pinnacled Gothic surrounds. An octagonal font with fleurons is present, and is covered by a pyramidal timber cover. There is mid-19th century stained glass in the east window, and two late 14th century roundels in the north nave windows. The tower contains a depiction of the Royal Arms of George III, painted on canvas, as well as an early 19th century chamber organ, four hatchments belonging to members of the Thornton family - also in oil on canvas - and numerous 18th and 19th century wall monuments, including one to Elizabeth Trimmell, who died in 1757 and signed by John Hunt of Northampton, and another to Thomas Thornton, who died in 1783 and by William Cox.