Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a Roman Catholic church built between 1903 and 1905 by Lowther from Hull. It is constructed of brick with stone dressings and has plain clay tile roofs. The church is oriented according to ritual requirements and features a continuous aisled nave and chancel, a half-octagonal apse, a south porch, short pentagonal transepts, and a north-west tower.

Designed in a decorated style with curvilinear tracery, the tower reflects French Gothic influences. It is three stages high, with angle buttresses that rise to short pyramid-capped turrets. The lower stages feature lancet windows under hoodmoulds and a canted porch on the north face. The tower has paired lancet bell openings with louvres and cusped heads, and clock faces are positioned below the eaves of the steeply-pitched, sprocketed, hipped roof, which is topped with ball-and-spike finials.

At the west end of the nave, similar angle buttresses flank boarded double doors that have scrolled strap hinges and are set under shouldered heads, all within paired pointed surrounds of three moulded orders on nook shafts with foliate capitals. The enriched hoodmoulds, gargoyles in the spandrels, and richly-carved tympana enhance the decorative elements. Tall paired windows with nook shafts flank a figure of St. Peter in a niche, which is supported by an enriched corbel and hood. A rood is positioned in the gable.

The church has a four-bay north aisle and a five-bay south aisle, each featuring hip-roofed canted projecting chapels. The gabled porch has similar doors and surrounds. The transepts are canted at their east ends. A tapered timber and metal ridge vent on the nave has cusped-headed openings, an ogee-domed roof, and a weather vane, although the louvres are missing.

Inside, the church features six-bay arcades with compound granite shafts and foliate capitals. Round wall shafts with carved capitals are located between the apse windows. A foundation stone dated 1903 can be found on the north side of the apse. The west gallery, which holds the organ, is above a glazed timber screen. The ceiling features a hammerbeam roof with cusped curved braces and enriched pendants, while the aisles have pointed cross-vaulting. Stucco stations of the cross are present on the aisle walls, and wrought iron screens are found in the easternmost bays of the arcades, along with similar communion rails. A later house and offices adjoining the north side of the chancel are not of special interest.