Church of St Peter

Church, of 1854, erected at its present location in 1866.

MATERIALS: the building has a timber frame with weather-boarded coverings under a gabled roof of double Roman tiles.

PLAN: the church is rectangular on plan, comprising a nave, chancel, a south-west bell tower and a late-C20 west porch. It is orientated approximately west-east.

EXTERIOR: the building is of four bays and stands on later brick pads. The timber cladding appears to have mostly been renewed. To the south-west corner is a slender, wooden tower with an open-sided belfry, surmounted by a pyramidal roof covered in felt sheeting and a cross finial. There are two three-light windows to both the north and south elevations; these are early-C20 metal-framed casements with leaded panes and set in wooden frames. A late-C20 porch has been added at the west end. It has half-glazed double doors with coloured, leaded glass in its south side. The west gable end of the church has a timber window with leaded panes on either side of the porch and blocked openings above. The windows in the east end have been covered over, but the cast-iron stay for the main, central window remains.

INTERIOR: there is a plank entrance door with wrought-iron handle, and to either side of the doorway is a narrow built-in cupboard with a plank door and strap hinges. The lower parts of the walls of the church have timber panelling and the upper sections are boarded with the timber frame exposed. The windows have chamfered timber mullions to the inside. The chancel is distinguished from the nave by a single step. The oak altar rail, which has carved trefoil heads, is understood to have been made from some of the timbers from the medieval church in West Quantoxhead, and the altar from an oak pulpit. The stone font is Perpendicular in style with a carved wooden cover and was formerly in St Andrew’s Church in Stogursey. It probably dates to the mid-C19. The roof has king post principals with angled struts.