The reredos is the decorated wall area beneath the East Window and behind the High Altar. In St Peter’s Church, this takes the form of alabaster with numerous carvings relating to the Holy Sacraments and celebration of Holy Communion.

There are plaques with ears of wheat and grapes, the source of bread and wine, and a pelican nursing her chicks. The pelican is a bird in myth also associated with sacrifice in blood of a mother for her children – as Christ for His people.

The highlight of the reredos is another large alabaster, carved by J Reid. It depicts, in relief, the painting of ‘The Last Supper’ by Leonado da Vinci.

It is a tour-de-force, with close attention to the detail and composition of the original, with life and movement in every character, with the exception of Christ alone, silently waiting.

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.