St Peter, Everleigh

St Peter’s was rebuilt on a new site in 1813 by John Morlidge of London for the Astley family. It is Gothic in style, but of a kind which is unmistakably early 19th century. The short chancel and narrow nave, the elegant west gallery and neo-mediaeval hammerbeam roof all emphasise its loftiness. The church retains many of its original fittings and is important to architectural historians for its iron-framed construction. Monuments to the Astley family include an enormous tablet to Francis Dugdale Astley, founder of the church, who died in 1818.