Parish Church of St Peter

The Parish Church of St Peter is a rectangular, six-bay, aisleless church with a west tower, dating from the 19th century. It is constructed of coursed local rubble with a slate roof, featuring cresting and a stone eaves course.

The three-stage west tower has freestone quoins, a cornice, and a crenellated parapet with pinnacles; the base is slightly battered. It has round arched, louvered bell stage openings. The south side of the tower features a similar cambered opening and a half-glazed door, and narrow ogee windows at the base, likely relating to a baptistery. Three-light cusped windows with square heads are set into the north and south sides, all with deep Tudor-style labels. Two-light Decorated windows are positioned at the west end of both sides. Elaborate detailing is present in the third and fifth bays on both sides, with rubble parapets featuring gable/pediment treatment, high kneelers, and niche-like finials with blind lancet openings. This detailing is also applied to a porch and a two-story projection to the north side of the church. The porch is topped with a crocketed finial and a blind square window above a simple label, above a pointed segmental arch with an imitation timber portcullis. The east end features a crenellated gable parapet and a five-light geometrical window, with the outline of a broader earlier opening visible beneath; an attic roundel sits above.

The interior is rendered and possesses simple Gothic detailing. The ceiling is a simplified ship's keel roof, boarded and panelled with stencilled script to the coved edges, which is more elaborate in the chancel, and dating from 1894. A tripartite division separates the nave and chancel, incorporating a central arch and stilted flanking arches leading to a Lady Chapel and an organ chamber/vestry, the latter featuring panelled infill. On the north side of the nave, opposite the main door, is a rib-vaulted chamber with a tripartite Tudor arched screen and balcony with Gothic balustrade; this area formerly held the Londonderry family pews until the 1894 restoration. Steps lead down to the baptistery at the west end, with deep window recesses featuring chamfered outer and inner arches. The church holds a 15th-century octagonal font with traceried panels. Other furnishings include a Gothic pulpit and choir stalls, with further stencilling present on the organ case. The Lady Chapel contains a Gothic stone monument (dated 1850) to Sir John Edwards, sculpted by S Manning of London. Numerous stained glass windows are also present, some by Clayton and Bell and Ward and Hughes of London, with the finest examples located in the Lady Chapel (1883 and 1886) and at the east end of the north side of the nave.