St Peter and St Paul's Church, Clare

The list of past priests extends as far back as 1307. The west tower is designed in the perpendicular style of the 13th century, however the church is principally of the 14th and early 15th century. The church has undergone several renovations including to the nave in the 1440s, the chancel in 1617, and the tower at the end of the 19th century. The clerestory are slender and closely set, the effect has the same erectness as Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford and St Peter and St Paul's Church, Lavenham. The church possesses a late 15th-century brass lectern in the form of an eagle with three dogs as feet rather than lions; this may have served as a collection-box, money posted at the beak…

An unusual item in the church is the gotch, a beer jug presented to the bell ringers in 1729 by the vicar, Matthew Bell. It is nearly 20 inch high and has a capacity of 32 imppt. It has a pun in its inscription campana sonant canore ("the bells ring in harmony"). The bell and crown, embossed upon it, are a reference to the Crown Hotel which was owned by the family of the vicar.