Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church built in 1870 by J Knowles for Susanna Lewes Jeffery. It is constructed from coursed and squared blue lias rubble with red sandstone banding, featuring prominent buttresses and tile roofs adorned with fish-tail banding and coped verges with finials. The church is designed in a Free Decorated style with Early English elements, consisting of a nave with a spired south belfry porch, north and south transepts, and an apsidal chancel.

The structure includes a three-bay nave, single-bay transepts, and chancel, with 2 and 3-light windows; the west window has intersecting tracery, while the chancel features lancet windows. The elaborate porch has an octagonal upper stage, each face with a gabled lantern at its base, a ribbed stone spire, and a clock, with a stair turret on the west side. The broad pointed-arch door opening is flanked by two pairs of detached shafts with foliate caps, and there are paired wrought-iron gates.

Inside, the lofty plastered interior has tile floors and is dominated by arch-braced roofs that spring from foliated corbels. The reredos features seven foiled gables, with a detached shaft with foliate caps between each gable, pierced by a lancet in the center and on each side, and there is a plain chancel arch. The church retains virtually complete 19th-century fittings, including pews, choir stalls, altar rails, a tub font, and oil lamps on brackets. The elaborate semi-circular stone pulpit has detached Purbeck shafts. Stained glass is present in the west window and the chancel, and there is a brass plaque commemorating the dedication of the church at the west end.