Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is an Anglican parish church, primarily dating from the 15th century, with some minor work from the 13th century and minor 19th-century restoration. It is constructed of coursed and squared rubble with slate roofs and freestone dressings, and features coped verges.

The church comprises a nave, chancel, south porch, a north chapel (part now used as a vestry), and a west tower. The architectural style is Perpendicular. The small, plain embattled two-stage tower has diagonal buttresses on the lower stage, a stair turret, a lead spirelet with a windvane, single-light foiled bell-chamber windows with stone louvres, a west window of paired lancets, and a plain west doorway with a ribbed and studded door. The nave has three bays, with square-headed two-light windows featuring a central mullion; two have foiled heads, one has a label, and a 19th-century casement provides light to a west gallery. The south porch has a gabled entrance with wrought iron dog gates, leading to a plain inner door opening with a ribbed and studded door and a benched flagstone floor. The chancel has similar fenestration to the nave on the south side, with a 13th-century lancet on the north side, and an east window of two cinquefoiled lights with a single cinquefoil tracery light. A priest’s door is located to the south, possibly dating back to the 13th century. The north transeptal chapel appears to be largely a 19th-century rebuild. Three 18th-century monuments are set into the exterior walls.

Inside, the interior is plastered and sits atop flagstone floors. The nave features a plastered wagon ceiling, while the chancel has a 15th-century wagon roof with a wall plate featuring paterae on a hollow moulding, three projecting brackets supporting three braces, three purlins, and rounded bosses with foliate carving. A simple tower arch consists of three recessed orders. A late 13th-century font is octagonal with a circular shaft and four smaller attached circular shafts. There are 17th-century pews, some with sliding benches, and a 17th-century west gallery with pierced splat balusters. Other 17th-century features include a restored pulpit and reader’s desk, a tester, altar rails, and candelabrae. Three restored 17th-century painted texts are located in the nave. The Royal Arms of George III, dated 1792, are also present. Two 18th-century coffin stools and 19th-century panelling in the chancel are visible, along with two 19th-century lamps beneath the tower. Stained glass from 1934 adorns the east window. Former village stocks are mounted on a wall inside the porch.