Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church that features some work from the 13th century, but is mainly from the late 15th century. The chancel was added around 1846, and the church was restored in 1901. It is constructed of red sandstone random rubble masonry, with red sandstone dressings, and the tower is faced with coursed squared ashlar. The roofs are made of slate, with double roman tiles on the north aisle.

The church has a four-bay nave, a chancel, three-bay north aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. The tower is crenellated and has three stages with finials, diagonal buttresses, and a stair turret in the northwest corner. It features two-light trefoil-headed windows and a four-light perpendicular window with Ham stone dressings above a heavily moulded four-centred arch doorway, all with hood moulds except for the second stage windows. The porch is flanked by three-light cinquefoil windows, and there are two two-light windows to the east beyond a roofed stair projection, as well as a three-light window at the east end of the aisle.

The north aisle contains six early 19th-century painted windows with Y tracery, two of which are at the east end with cinquefoil rear arches. The gabled south porch has coped verges. Inside, the church features standard perpendicular piers with carved angel capitals and wagon roofs. There are notable late 15th-century bench ends and a perpendicular pulpit that was likely made from the rood screen that was dismantled when the chancel was added. The late 15th-century octagonal font has trefoil decoration on a 13th-century base, and there is a 1614 alms box.

A cinquefoil niche on the north aisle wall has a late 13th-century inscription above it, which refers to the heart of a nun, Maud de Merriete, originally placed here when it was a chantry chapel owned by the lords of the manor until the late 19th century. The tomb of Sir John de Merriete, a knight, and his two wives dates to the early 14th century. There are also late 15th-century and early 16th-century brasses dedicated to Florence Fraunceis and Nicholas Fraunceis, respectively. A blank tablet on the west wall of the north aisle features a cartouche, volutes, and apron, dedicated to Philippa Fraunceis, who died in 1745. The chancel window, added around 1846, is dedicated to the Rev. Sidney Smith.