"Parish Church of St. Peter stands towards the W. side of the parish. The walls are of local sandstone rubble with dressings of the same material; the roofs are covered with tiles, stone slates and shingles. The Nave was built c. 1200; the West Tower added in the first half of the 13th century and the Chancel re-built c. 1300. The tower was restored in 1816 and the chancel in 1874; the Vestry and South Porch are modern.
The stone stairs to the former rood-loft are unusual, and among the fittings the leather case for the communion plate is noteworthy.
Architectural Description—The Chancel (23½ ft. by 16 ft.) is of c. 1300 and has an E. window of three plain pointed lights in a two-centred head. In the N. wall is a modern arch and farther E. an opening, probably a former window but with the sill cut away to form a modern doorway. In the S. wall are two windows, the eastern of two plain pointed lights in a two-centred head and the western of a single trefoiled light. There is no chancel-arch.
The Vestry is modern, but re-set in the E. wall is a window of c. 1300 and of one trefoiled light. Re-set in the W. wall and blocked is an early 14th-century window of two trefoiled ogee lights.
The Nave (47 ft. by 21¾ ft.) has, in the N. wall, seven windows, all modern except the fifth from the E. which is a single round-headed late 12th-century light; the blocked N. doorway has chamfered jambs and a modern lintel. In the S. wall are five modern windows; the late 12th-century S. doorway has roll-moulded jambs and two-centred head; the lower jambs are modern. In the W. wall, above the tower doorway, is a late 12th or early 13th-century lancet-window partly restored and now opening into the tower. In the N.E. angle of the nave is a stone staircase formerly leading to the rood-loft.
The West Tower (about 11½ ft. square) is of early 13th-century date and of two storeys with a modern capping and timber spire. In the E. wall of the ground stage is a restored doorway with a segmental head. The N. and S. walls have each a lancet-window, and E. of the S. window is a doorway all modern externally. In the W. wall is a lancet-window surmounted by a round opening and both included under a moulded label. The bell-chamber has two modern windows in the E. wall, the N., S. and W. walls have each a lancet-window, that in the S. partly restored.
The Roof of the chancel is of 14th or 15th-century date restored and is of three bays and with curved braces below the collars and a trefoiled opening above; the wall-plates are moulded. Between the chancel and nave is a 15th-century moulded and embattled tie-beam carrying a framed partition above. The partly restored roof of the nave is of braced collar-beam type, with moulded purlins and principals, and is of 14th or 15th-century date.
Fittings—Bells: six; 3rd probably from the Worcester foundry, 15th-century, and inscribed "Sancte Petre ora pro nobis" (Plate 40); 4th, by Thomas Clibury II, 1672; 5th inscribed "Sancte Thoma ora pro nobis," 15th-century; 6th by John Finch, 1648. Bracket: In nave—E. of S. doorway, shaped corbel, mediæval. Chest: In nave—of oak and of hutch-type panelled front with carved enrichment to styles and rails and carved arches to panels, of doubtful antiquity. Churchyard Cross (Plate 47): square to octagonal base with niche in W. face having trefoiled head, lower part of shaft, 14th-century, later capping. A square to octagonal stone base of a cross, of uncertain origin, is preserved at Highway Farm, 700 yards S.S.E. of the church. Font: round stem and moulded octagonal base, probably 13th-century, bowl modern; in churchyard—part of octagonal bowl with moulded projecting rim, probably 14th-century. Monument: In nave—on W. wall, to John Adys, 1691, stone and slate tablet with eared architrave, scrolls, pediment and cartouche-of-arms. Piscina: In chancel—recess with chamfered jambs and trefoiled head, mutilated projecting drain, c. 1300. Rood-beam (Plate 71): At E. end of nave— moulded beam, formerly front-beam of rood-loft, with carved and pierced vine-ornament, 15th-century. Miscellanea: In sill of N. window of vestry—slab with chamfered edge and one incised cross, possibly altar-slab. In nave—in S. wall,-slab perhaps one side of stone trough. In churchyard—N. of church, right-angled octagonal stone, perhaps part of cross. Now in the Hereford City Museum—Cuir bouilli cylindrical case (Plate 68) for cup or chalice, with embossed ornament including the letters IHC, fleurs-de-lis, palms and two shields, one with a plain cross and one with three roundels on a chief and a 'black-letter' inscription below, early 16th-century."
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