Church Of St Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a parish church built in 1809, with a restoration noted in a brass plaque in the porch from 1892. The church was funded by a tontine and partly by the Dean and Chapter of Durham. It features coursed squared sandstone with a plinth, along with snecked sandstone additions for the chancel, south aisle, tower buttresses, and stair turret. The roofs are covered with Welsh slate, and the stair turret has stone flags.

Architecturally, the church is designed in the Perpendicular style and includes a west tower with a south porch, a nave, a north vestry, a chancel, and a south porch. The west door is pointed-arched and set in a chamfered, moulded surround within the porch of the three-stage tower. The upper stages of the tower have three-light windows and two-light belfry openings, with buttresses that have multiple offsets and slit windows in the octagonal stair turret. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet featuring gargoyles.

The nave has four bays with three-light windows, while the vestry has two-light windows and an elliptical-headed door. The chancel windows are square-headed and sit beneath a flower-ornamented string supported by grotesque animal corbels, which continues to the gable above a five-light, two-centred-arched east window. The nave features a rough corbel table and pinnacled battlements.

Inside, the church has plaster walls with ashlar dressings above a panelled dado. The chancel arch is wide and double-chamfered, supported by octagonal columns, from which spring side arches leading to the aisle and organ chamber. The nave roof is cusped, collared, and features hammer-beams and king posts with large angels on the hammers, while the chancel roof is panelled. The font has been relocated from Holy Cross Church to the west baptistry, and there are three sedilia in the south chancel. The stained glass in the south aisle is by Atkinson, and in the north aisle by Ethel Rhine Strang.