Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church dating back to the 12th century, which was repaired around 1622. Further repairs and alterations occurred in 1808 and again in 1854, carried out by E.F. Law. The church is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ironstone dressings and has slate roofs. It consists of a chancel, a nave, and a west tower.

The chancel features a three-light east window with 19th-century Perpendicular tracery, set within a larger round-arched opening with a keyblock. A datestone above reads "CN/1808". A blocked, chamfered Tudor-arched door is located to the north, and a two-light chamfered stone mullion window is set high in the north-west corner, with a hood mould. The south side of the chancel has a central three-light arched mullion window with a hood mould, alongside a blocked pointed arched window to the right, a blocked one-light low-side window to the far left containing a pointed trefoil-headed light and transom, and a blocked chamfered priest’s door with a round-arched head. The nave has a four-light arched mullion window on the north side, with a hood mould, and a chamfered Tudor-arched south door flanked by similar two-light windows, all likely dating from the 17th-century repairs.

The tower has pilaster buttresses on each side. A blocked door with a round-arched head is to the left of a buttress on the north side, with a pointed trefoil-headed piscina further left. Small round-arched windows are visible in the middle stage of the tower, and the bell chamber has two-light openings with quatrefoils to the heads, except for the east side, which retains original one-light round-arched openings either side of the buttress. A battlemented parapet tops the tower. Off-set buttresses flank the east window, and the chancel has chamfered stone eaves.

Inside the chancel are a simple sedilia, a piscina, and an aumbry. A round-headed chancel arch is present, featuring carved imposts. A tall, narrow, round-headed tower arch with moulded imposts is visible, along with a wider inner arch. A font is inset into the north pier of the tower arch, showcasing a polygonal stem and bowl. There are two hatchments (oil on canvas), a brass memorial to Clement Edmonds, who died in 1622, and his wife Mary. A standing wall monument, signed H. Cox, commemorates Elizabeth, wife of Purbeck Langham, who died in 1736. The monument's plinth features plain pilasters at the angles. The inscription itself is flanked by fluted Doric pilasters and a triglyph frieze, surmounted by a broken pediment framed by lamp finials, and incorporating a gadrooned urn with a cartouche of arms at the base and a gilded flame finial.