Church of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating to the 18th century. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with a heavy slate roof and a tiled ridge cresting. The church features a four-bay nave, distinguished by slim pilaster buttresses, a gabled porch to the north, and a lean-to vestry to the south. A chancel is present with a flat-roofed vestry to its north. The gabled north porch has a simple chamfered doorway with a plain hood mould. Broad lancet windows are found throughout the church, although the west front has paired traceried lights, and the east window exhibits reticulated tracery in three lights.

The nave's three and a half bays are characterized by scissor-braced principal trusses springing from cusped wallposts and braces, with closely spaced rafters. The chancel also features closely spaced scissor-braced rafters. The church’s interior furnishings form a complete series of exceptional quality, all the work of Cecil Hare. In the west, a font stands in the centre of a half-bay, consisting of an octagonal basin on a cylindrical shaft with raised steps. This is topped by a traceried panelled tester, its canopy enriched with finely worked vine-scroll and fret-work, and its panelled underside with gilded suns. The chancel is divided by a screen with four traceried panels on either side of the central archway. This screen features linen-fold panelling with quatrefoil bands, openwork, and fine filigree tracery. The central arch has ogival tracery, and the screen is surmounted by a fleur-de-lys frieze. To the north of the screen is an integrated pulpit, similarly enriched with open-work panelling. Linen-fold choir stalls and communion rails, both enriched with a quatrefoil band, are also part of the decorative scheme. A finely worked reredos consists of a series of panels with free-standing tracery, containing gilded emblems of the evangelists flanking a pair of rejoicing angels holding a wreath. Traceried panels to either side of the reredos house bright painted angels each carrying a scroll. The east window contains stained glass – a painterly scheme likely by Burlison and Grylles – depicting the crucifixion within a spacious landscape.