St Peter

West tower: dated AND / 1598

gabled porch with pointed doorway, two double-ogee moulded orders on cylindrical nook shafts with moulded capitals and bases, niche above containing an angel.

high pointed chancel arch with roll and fillet and quarter roll and fillet mouldings, on engaged columns with broad fillet moulding and moulded capitals bearing carved foliage painted gold

pointed south chapel arch with roll and fillet and quarter roll and fillet mouldings, clustered engaged columns with fillet moulded shafts and moulded capitals, hood mould terminating in leaf and flower carved stops

chancel arcade of pointed arches with deep hollow chamfer and octagonal columns with leaf carved capitals painted gold

scissor braced nave roof with braces springing from carved stone corbels

arch braced collar root to south aisle with cusping inbetween collar and principals, paired wavy wind braces, principals spring from carved stone corbels

chancel has an arch-braced collar roof, the braces springing from short cantilevered beams supported on gold painted carved brackets which are, in turn, supported on stone corbels carved as angels

arch braced collar roof to south chapel, the braces have roll and fillet moulding and carved fleurons, and spring from wooden corbels carved as angels, cusped wind braces forming circles, cusping between collar and principals.

Fittings: C19 stone font on pedestal of clustered octagonal columns with moulded capitals and bases, heavily ornamented basin carved with crocketed ogee-headed panels and angels, pinnacled tabernacle font cover

C15 wooden door to west end with blind cinquefoil headed panels

wooden pulpit, octagonal, richly carved with scenes from the life of Christ, brass hand rail and balustrade

C19 benches with carved poppy heads

late C19 communion rail, highly decorative, brass with wooden hand rail.

Monuments: restored by E. Richardson in 1848: South chapel: (Stanley chapel) Knight of circa 1370, alabaster, with bogus Gothic inscription by Richardson to Sir John Stanley, died 1474, recumbent effigy with feet on a dog, chest tomb beneath with cusped panels bearing shields

The alabaster effigy (restored by E. Richardson in 1848) is of Sir John Stanley (†1474).

© Mike Searle

Sir Thomas Arderne, died 1391, and wife, alabaster, two recumbent figures, Sir Thomas in full armour with his feet on a lion, chest tomb with cinquefoil-headed panels with mourners and angels,. some hold shields

John Stanley, killed circa 1460 on being struck by a tennis ball, recumbent effigy of a child with his feet on a dog, the face

hair late C13 in style and inspired by the so-called effigy of Jean, son of Louis IX, at Saint-Denis

Sir William Smythe, died 1525, and two wives, three recumbent effigies, Sir William in armour with his head resting on a helmet and his feet on a lion, chest tomb heavily decorated with effigies of monks standing beneath canopies.

Choir: William Staunton, circa 1450, only the upper and lower thirds are carved and are sunk, the centre is plain.

Stained glass: west window by Wailes, 1841

south aisle west circa 1525, Netherlandish