St Peter’s tall 14^th Century tower is an imposing landmark. It stands in its churchyard completely encircled by redbrick walls as part of the small Church Langton village.

The church is large and very tall.  It consists of a nave (the main body) with north and south aisles, south porch, west tower, chancel to which is attached on the north  a Victorian vestry and organ chamber. 

It is mainly of ashlar (smooth sawn) white limestone but has some brown ironstone rubble (rough stone) in the aisles.

This is perpendicular, early 15^thC, as is the bell tower with its clasped buttresses and tall louvered windows. Both clerestory and tower are battlemented.

This was a great rebuilding, but some earlier features remain, in the windows, notably  in the south aisle, in the two canopied recessed tombs and the sedilia and piscina in the chancel. There is a variety of windows in the aisles from the 13^th to 15^th centuries.

Inside the impression is of a 19^th century interior imposed on a soaring mediaeval building. The tall 15^thC  4-bay arcade, worthy of East Anglian great churches, is notable with its slender composite piers of continuous moulding and small semi-round columns with moulded capitals (tops). This with, the very tall chancel and tower arches, tower and clerestory (uppers walls and windows) dates from the  15^thC perpendicular rebuilding. 

In the mid 1860s in there was a major re-ordering to create a church interior in line with 19^thC thinking.  The architect was Henry Goddard of Leicester under The Rev^d Thomas Hanbury and cost  £3199. (A very great sum then) The walls were scraped of their plaster to leave rough stone exposed, there was a new timber roof, William Hanbury’s great organ of 1759 was moved from the tower to the chancel which necessitated building a new organ chamber; this was attached to a new vestry. There were new pews, pulpit, lectern and altar, new altar rails, and new encaustic tiles in the Chancel. The mediaeval font – adapted in 1662 with a date – and the pulleyed wooden font cover were reset on 19^th coloured tiles.