Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church located on Bishopton High Street. It likely dates back to the 13th century but was largely rebuilt in 1846-1847, with the addition of a north aisle and tower by architects Sharp and Paley. The church is constructed from coursed sandstone rubble, featuring 19th-century red sandstone dressings, and has a dressed limestone late medieval east bay in the chancel. The roofs are made from graduated green slate.

The tower is situated at the west end of the north aisle and is three stages high with diagonally-buttressed corners. It includes a polygonal stair turret on the south-west corner, pointed windows, and two-light bell openings. A medieval grave-slab fragment and a cusped niche are incorporated into the west face, topped by an embattled parapet. The nave and chancel have mid-19th-century buttresses, and the nave is three bays wide with a chamfered plinth and a three-light window at the diagonally-buttressed west end. The south side features mainly two-light windows, a medieval grave slab, and a large diamond-shaped wall sundial dated 1776, inscribed with "FUGIT HORA." The roof is steep with coped gables. The chancel is lower and narrower, with two bays and lancets, including two dedication crosses and three stepped lancets on the diagonally-buttressed east end, also with a steep roof and coped east gable. The north aisle has a mid-19th-century shouldered doorway and a pent roof, while the organ chamber has a low-pitched pent roof.

Inside, the church has a plain plastered interior. In the nave, there is a 13th-century octagonal font with a cylindrical stem and a 17th-century wooden steeple cover. An 1811 wall monument by Hutchinson is located on the south side. The mid-19th-century north arcade consists of three bays with double-chamfered pointed arches on cylindrical piers. The chancel arch is tall and chamfered, with an original 13th-century trefoil-headed lancet in the wall to the north of the arch. The reredos, made of Caen stone and marble, dates from 1889. The mid-19th-century roofs feature four braced-collar trusses in the nave and two similar trusses in the chancel.