The tower of St.Peter & St.Paul's Church was built in the 12th century as part of a small village church with only a nave and a small chancel attached. In the early 19th century, when the local barracks and Ordnance Depot were built the church was too small for the vastly increased numbers attending church so the nave and chancel were demolished and a new nave built at its present size. The chancel is Victorian and was added in 1863 by E.F.Law, and the organ chamber and vicar's vestry added in 1878. The church is now Grade II* listed.
The tower is built in a mixture of ironstone and limestone with two string courses, and has a Tudor style perpendicular window and door in the west face, elsewhere there are slit and round headed windows of Norman origin. A crenellated parapet of later date completes the tower.
The rebuilt church consists of chancel - 1863, nave, north and south aisles, and north and south porches - 1825, organ chamber and vicar's vestry - 1878 all in coursed squared ironstone with slate roofs.