Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church of 1861, built in the Early English style to the designs of architect CE Giles. It is constructed of random rubble, locally known as 'Draycott Marble', a dolomitic conglomerate, with freestone dressings. The roof is mainly of banded tiles, with a faceted roof to the chancel, some coped verges, and cruciform finials. A steeply gabled ashlar bell-cote with two bells sits over the crossing.

The plan includes a nave, chancel with a polygonal apse, transepts, lean-to chancel chapels, and a small semi-circular vestry. The exterior features lancet windows, some grouped in twos or threes, with transepts displaying three-light windows featuring plate tracery, solid eyes, polychromatic freestone and Dolomitic Conglomerate voussoirs to heads. A gabled porch on the south side has a shafted outer door opening with stiff-leaf foliage, a benched flagstone floor, and a plank door with strap hinges.

The interior is plastered and has flagstone, tile, and encaustic tile floors. The nave roof is scissor-braced, while the chancel has a wagon roof with gilded decoration. A broad chancel arch rests on fat, short, circular piers with stiff-leaf foliage capitals. Stained glass from circa 1861 is present in the chancel lancets; the other windows have ornamental leaded lights. The Romanesque-style font is attributed to William Burges, featuring a square limestone cap with foliage and allegorical figures carved in relief, a lead-lined bowl, a truncated polished granite column with floral crockets to its capital and water-leaf carvings on the base, and a square limestone plinth. Other furnishings include a wrought iron rood screen of 1894, possibly designed by George Fellowes Prynne, a carved stone pulpit, a lectern carved as an eagle, a 19th-century organ, and a neo-Perpendicular reredos of 1903.

Historical research suggests the font was designed by William Burges, working under the patronage of Rev. John Augustus Yatman. The church is a competent design in simple Early English style. Despite some late 20th-century internal alterations, it remains a conservative, balanced single-phase composition. The church's significance is strengthened by its connection to the renowned Victorian architect William Burges.