Saint Peter

While the existing building shares its north wall with the Anglo-Saxon church and its east wall with the C14 church the full extent of these earlier buildings is not clear.

EXTERIOR: the south side of the chancel is in coursed limestone, rebuilt in 1853 but with re-used medieval material including some carved stones and resting on a low plinth of earlier date that includes the footings of an entrance.

The east end is medieval in its lower part, C19 above, and has a diagonal buttress to the south-east and an angle buttress to the north-east.

The north wall of the nave is mainly coursed gritstone, medieval or earlier and has two stepped buttresses.

A blocked doorway towards the west end with a foliate capital supporting a pointed arch is C14 in date.

At the apex is a bell-cote with two bells, one medieval.

On the north wall is a memorial plaque of 1638, of which most of the surround is missing.

There are wooden bench pews, a stone font at the west end and a hexagonal lectern by the north wall adjacent to the chancel.

A coloured glass screen divides the nave and chancel above the springing of the chancel arch which has foliate decoration on the capitals.

The west and north lancet windows of the nave and the eastern south aisle window have stained glass by Clayton and Bell, and there is a further window by Kempe.

A very large brass chandelier, commissioned and designed by J L Pearson and originally in Bishop Wilton Church, hangs in the nave.

A vestry on the north side of the chancel, dating to 1853, has a number of carved stone fragments built into the north wall.

These include corbel heads and foliate crosses from coffin lids, and a fragment of Romanesque carving.