Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter, formerly dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was built between 1827 and 1829 by Rickman and Hutchinson. It is constructed of fine sandstone, with a low-pitched slate roof that is hipped over the east end. The church comprises a west tower, a single-nave and sanctuary space, and north and south aisles, each with a porch. The architectural style is Perpendicular.

The three-stage west tower features set-back buttresses with scrolled weatherings, short extensions with diagonal buttresses to the first stage on the north and south sides, and a diagonal stair turret piercing the northwest buttress. Moulded string courses run at two levels. A doorway with an arched head is accessed under a square hoodmould, and above this is a flat-headed window with a cinquefoil design recessed within a hollowed surround. The belfry has arched, five-light louvres with Perpendicular tracery and matching hollowed surrounds, all topped by battlements with eight flat-topped pinnacles.

The nave and aisles are regularly spaced with seven bays, both featuring plain parapets. Windows have hoodmoulds; the clerestory has flat-headed windows with three cinquefoil-headed lights. The aisles feature buttresses with scrolled weatherings and transomed windows of two cinquefoil lights with Perpendicular tracery in Tudor-arched heads. The second bay on each side has an embattled, gabled porch (the north porch having a side entrance). The three-sided apse at the east end contains three windows similar to those in the aisles. A vestry is situated at the east end of the north side.

Inside, the seven-bay arcade is carried on piers with cyma moulding that is continued in the arches. Slim shafts on the nave side of the columns formerly extended through the plaster of the clerestory to corbels supporting flat ceiling beams. The interior plaster has since been removed. Galleries were once present on three sides, and the ground floor at the west end is now partitioned, incorporating panelling previously from the Church of St George. A central chancel window was installed by Shrigley and Hunt in 1896. A war memorial reredos and tablet were added in 1923.