Church of St. Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a building of mixed dates and styles, situated slightly south of east. It comprises a nave with a chancel under a single roof, a south aisle of roughly equal height and width to the nave, a north transept, and a south porch. The church is constructed of uncoursed limestone and gritstone masonry. The roofs are steep-pitched slate, featuring crested ridge tiles and coped gables to the nave and chancel, and to the porch. The aisle roof has plain ridge tiles and a pointed verge. A prominent 19th-century bell turret is situated at the west end of the nave, and 19th-century buttresses run parallel to the internal arcade.

A few small, early windows remain, most of which have been blocked. These include a square-headed window in the north transept, a very small square-headed opening near the transept in the north wall of the chancel, a pair of high-level trefoil-light windows in the same wall, and a pair of small, roughly repaired high-level windows with four-centred arches in the south aisle wall. The main body of the windows date from the 19th century, part of Seddon’s restoration, and are in a Decorated style, featuring two trefoil-headed lights with a trefoiled roundel above. The east window has three lights with a larger ornate roundel above. Seddon's bellcote above the west wall of the nave is finished with four steeply pitched gables.

The arcade, thought to be either 13th or 14th century in character, was restored by Seddon and consists of five arches supported by circular columns with simple mouldings and cushion-shaped caps. Inside, there is a step up from the nave to the chancel and another to the altar. The nave and chancel roof is a ten-bay construction with arch-braced collar-beam trusses. The south aisle roof is of common rafters with crossed collars. The north transept, which houses the organ, has a canted timber ceiling, while the porch has common rafters with collars.

The nave floor is laid with limestone flags. The chancel and sanctuary are decorated with Minton encaustic tiles, including a reredos. The church includes a 19th-century pulpit against the north side, 19th-century pews, and carved choir stalls. There is a Gothic carved altar set on a white-painted plinth, accompanied by plain timber altar rails.

Four stained glass windows are present, including the west window of the nave, which serves as a memorial to the South African War of 1900. The church also contains a collection of mural monuments, including an early 17th-century chest-tomb memorial to the Philipps family, a Baroque monument in yellow limestone with damaged cherubs' heads, a memorial to the Rev. Edward Philipps, and a white-marble memorial to Richard Willy set within a black marble surround.

The font is square, tapering towards the base, and stands on a square pillar with a black slab step.