Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed church located on Wains Lane in Willerby. It dates back to the 13th century, with a nave from that period, a late 14th-century tower, and a south porch. The north aisle was narrowed in the late 18th century, and the church underwent restoration in the late 19th century, during which the chancel was rebuilt. The building features dressed sandstone on a chamfered plinth and has a slate roof.

The church has a west tower, a 5½-bay aisled nave, and a continuous chancel, along with a south porch. The squat tower is topped with an embattled parapet and is flanked by dwarf offset buttresses that support a west window with three pointed lights and renewed chamfered mullions. The tower includes louvred, two-centred-arched bell openings on the east, west, and south faces, and a pent-roofed vice on the north face. A string course runs beneath the parapet.

The gabled porch features a chamfered opening with a two-centred arch on moulded imposts. Above the arch, there is a coved hoodmould with headstops, and a keystone carved with the head of St Peter holding crossed keys. The gable apex has a canted sundial, and the eaves have a cavetto moulded course. The south doorway is two-centred with a renewed door on reused C-hinges. To the east of the door, there are two square-headed windows with three foiled lights and renewed dagger tracery. Further east, there are dwarf offset buttresses and two 19th-century lancets with hoodmoulds in the chancel.

On the north side, there are four lancets and offset buttresses at each end. The east window has been renewed and features three foiled lights with geometric tracery beneath a pointed hoodmould. A gable cross is positioned at the east end of the chancel.

Inside, the tower arch is double-chamfered and rests on coved imposts, with the north impost being renewed. The north arcade consists of double-chamfered arches supported by four cylindrical piers and a central octagonal pier. The capital of the westernmost pier has nailhead moulding, the next east has fleurons, and the octagonal pier capital features limpet shell mouldings, while the remaining capitals are uncarved. The easternmost arch rests on a reused headstop, and there is a continuous hoodmould to the arcade with three head and three stiff-leaf stops.

The east window in the south aisle is dedicated to John and Hannah Taylor and dates to around 1879. The church also contains good 19th-century oil lamps with ruby glass and brass fittings.