Church Of Saint Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating to the early 14th century. It is constructed of local lias stone, squared and coursed, with Ham stone dressings. The roof is covered in plain clay tiles, with bands of fish scale tiles, and features coped gables and ornamented ridges, including cross finials to the main gables. The church is arranged around two cells: a two-bay chancel and a three-bay nave, with a south porch and a west tower.

The chancel is plain with a late 15th century traceried east window, featuring external ferramenta. Curved windows are located towards the west of the chancel on each side. Later, likely 16th century, windows are present towards the east, with a two-light window to the south side and a single-light window to the north side. A steeply cambered arched doorway is situated between the south windows. The nave has full-height buttresses on the north side, with two 14th century two-light cusped lancet windows with quatrefoils in bays 1 and 3. A tall, plain, pointed arched doorway with an old door is present in bay 2. The south side of the nave features two buttresses, a half-height buttress, a 16th century traceried window with square foliated stops to the label in bay 1, and a 17th century two-light hollow chamfer mullioned window with a label in bay 3. Bay 2 contains the south porch, which is gabled with a two-centre arched outer doorway (the outer arch segmental) and a plain pointed arch inner door. The door itself is possibly 16th century and retains old ironwork.

The four-stage tower has angled offset corner buttresses on the west side, with the upper three stages octagonal. Stage 1 has an early 14th century traceried window. Small plain lancet windows are found on the south and north-west faces of stage 2, with relieving arches above. Similar windows are present on the cardinal points of stage 3. Stage 4 has larger cusped lancet windows on all faces except the north and south, fitted with stone baffle grilles. The tower is topped with a shallow flat parapet and a stair turret with a pyramidal roof located to the north-east corner.

Internally, the ceilings are boarded, likely dating to the late 19th or early 20th century, with collar braced rafters in the chancel and a ribbed pointed barrel vault in the nave. The chancel arch is narrow and single chamfered, possibly pre-dating the tower. The tower arch is double chamfered, resting on molded brackets, possibly from the 13th century. Traces of wall painting and colouring are visible on the north wall of the nave. Late 17th century turned balustered fittings include a communion rail and choirstalls, along with later 17th century pews. A small tub font stands on a shaft, and a plain 17th century pulpit is also present.