St Peter's Church, Sudbury

The earliest documentary record of the church is in 1180, when it was a chapel of ease to St Gregory's Church. The church was built in three stages, beginning with the first two bays of the chancel and the base of the tower in about 1330–48. The later stages of building were in about 1360, and in about 1425–50. In 1643, during the Civil War, the iconoclast William Dowsing damaged many of the items in the church. A restoration took place in 1685, which included some alterations to the nave roof.

The arcades are in six bays, the piers on the north arcade differing from those on the south. The roof is ceiled and divided into panels, with gilt bosses at the intersections. It is the only medieval nave roof in Suffolk to be ceiled and panelled in its original form. There is a ring of ten bells, the oldest three being cast in about 1470, and the most recent two in 1978.