St Peter

Tower: pre-Conquest core refaced C15

string course beneath pointed-arched 3-light window having unrestored hoodmould with head-carved stops

shared hoodmoulds with head-carved stops.

String course with north and south gargoyles and traceried frieze beneath embattled parapet with 4 crocketed pinnacles.

Navel aisle overlap to south of tower is of C15 ashlar with diagonal west buttress, square-headed window to south and triangular-headed 3-light window to west.

C15 porch, restored C20, has angle buttresses and iron gates across pointed arch with shafted jambs, dog tooth to soffit and billeted hoodmould

2-order C12 doorway within has renewed shafts and left capital to arch with chamfer, zig-zag and dogtoothed hood

C15 grave slab on inner porch wall to east beneath niche with seated figure.

C14 aisle on right is of rubble with buttresses to east and between 2-light windows with chamfered, quoined surrounds and shouldered heads

C15 clerestorey: ashlar

Tudor-arched priests' door beneath C20 hollow-chamfered 3- light window with square-head

to left a restored C15 window of 2-lights in same style

Separately-roofed vestry of 1913 has Tudor-arched east door flanked by hooded ogee windows

low C12 round arches from tower to aisles beneath round-headed slit windows.

cylindrical piers with 1 scalloped capital and I carved with figures in foliage.

Over central arch a blocked Saxon window with round-arched head cut in a single stone, the window splays externally

South arcade, of c1200, has 3 pointed arches on cylindrical piers with differing carved capitals In south aisle a triangular-headed piscina with projecting square bowl. in north aisle an ogee recess beneath eastern aisle window

opposite is a semi- octagonal column piscina in C13 style

Chancel arch: C12, restored, with roll-mould continued as shafts down west side and lozenge-carved imposts.

Font: Perpendicular, octagonal with 4 shafts about the column

shields and figures in quatrefoiled side panels.

Medieval altar stone, brought from castle and now in north chapel, has 5 crosses and relic box niche.

Monuments: C13 cross slab at east end of north aisle

above it a wall monument to the Bosvile family having oval plaque set amongst foliage.

On chancel south wall a monument by Knowles of Manchester to W. Richard Woodyeare On north wall that by Thomas of London to Fountain John Woodyeare of Crookhill Hall Brasses: near pulpit to Marie Tofield

on chancel south wall to Rev. Henry Saxton dated 1665

in north aisle recess to Nicholas Bosvile In south aisle a remarkable C12 coped tomb chest bearing medallions with knights in combat, winged beasts and zodiac signs

Glass: jumbled C15 glass with 3 heads in chancel south window

Detailed description in P.F. Ryder, Saxon Churchesin South Yorkshire, County Archaeology Monograph No 2, 1982, pp 45-61.