Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a largely medieval church, dating to the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries, and heavily restored in 1864. It is constructed of magnesian limestone with a Welsh slate roof. The church comprises a two-stage west tower with a north boiler room, a three-bay nave with a south porch and north aisle, and a single-bay chancel with a north chapel and vestry.

The tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets to the first stage, a chamfered plinth, and a west-facing two-light window with re-cut Y-tracery within a chamfered surround. Above this is another two-light window with reticulated tracery within a double-chamfered surround. A chamfered band, pointed two-light bell opening with a hoodmould to each side, a moulded string course with gargoyles, and battlements with crocketted finials complete the tower. The boiler room has a re-cut window with Y-tracery and a pointed arch.

The south side of the nave has a pointed-arched entrance to the second bay, housing a plank door, traceried overlight, and a hoodmould, all dating to the 19th century. A pointed-arched opening with a double-chamfered, ovolo-moulded surround leads to an early 15th-century studded plank door. Flanking the porch are a round-arched window with reticulated tracery and a three-light, pointed reticulated-type window. The north aisle has primarily two-light windows with reticulated tracery, and one with authentic reticulated tracery to the head. The chancel’s south side features a priest's door with a plank door and pointed arch. A two-light window is a 19th-century insertion. Ashlar copings adorn the east gables of the nave and chancel.

Inside, the restored tower arch has cylindrical responds with plain capitals and a double-chamfered pointed arch. The nave has a three-bay north arcade; two bays have clustered columns with moulded capitals and bases and double-chamfered, ovolo-moulded pointed arches, while the third bay features a lower, pointed double-chamfered arch. The late Norman chancel arch, heightened in the 13th century, incorporates a group of three shafts with moulded capitals displaying foliage and strapwork, supporting a pointed arch with zigzag moulding. A 19th-century double-chamfered arch leads to the chapel. The chancel includes a Decorated triple sedilia with ogee gables, pinnacles and bossy foliage. A Norman tub font is decorated with intersecting arches on a cylindrical shaft.