St. Edmund's Parish Church
St. Edmund's Church is named after the martyred King of East Anglia who died at the hands of the Danes in 869 AD. Although not mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086 (when Peveril Castle was started), it's thought the building was started soon after that. The church lies at the centre of the original Norman village on a slight mound. There have been three main building stages, the Nave was built between 1190 and 1250 (the chancel arch with its chevron moulding dates from this period), 
the Tower (1450 - 1500) and the Chancel, Vestry and South Porch (1820 - 1840).
Inside are the ancient box pews which were carved with Renaissance moulding in the reign of Charles II and show the names and dates of the occupiers - Samuel Cryer, Vicar 1661, Thomas Hall, 1661, Thomas Cresswell, 1662 and Robert Hall 1663.
The church's other notable feature are the old bibles kept in a glass case. There is a copy of the rare vinegar bible (printed at Oxford in 1716) 
which has misprinted the parable of the vineyard as the parable of the vinegar. There is also the great Cranmer Bible of 1539 and the Geneva Bible, known as the 'breeches bible' of 1609, where Adam and Eve sewed fig leaves together and made themselves breeches.