Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter was built in 1866 by E. G. Paley. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof. The church comprises a nave with aisles, a south-west vestry, a chancel, and a north-east tower with a spire (the ritual west is actually the north).

The 5-bay nave features a cornice to the clerestory and aisles. The aisles have 2-light windows with geometrical tracery and hood moulds with head stops; gabled buttresses are ornamented with animal corbels. The clerestory has paired 2-light windows. North and south gabled porches have angle buttresses, arches with ball-flower detailing on quatrefoil responds with foliated capitals. The west end is characterised by gabled buttresses flanking a 4-light window, a small light above with shafts, and 2-light aisle windows, all with headstops to their hood moulds. The tower has diagonal buttresses with blind arches to angled top projections, a 3-light north window, and a second-stage trefoil-headed light with shafts on the sill course. The bell stage has sill and impost courses and paired 2-light louvred bell openings, with clock faces above. A top cornice features gargoyles, and the broach spire has two tiers of lucarnes, the lower ones of two lights. An east stair turret is canted with a trefoil-headed entrance. The chancel has gabled buttresses flanking a 3-light east window, an enriched cornice, and a 2-light trefoil-headed south window. The vestry, added later, is gabled to the east and west.

Inside, the arcades are supported by round columns with crocket capitals, and have hood moulds with head stops. Corbelled detached shafts support a waggon roof. There are two wrought iron chandeliers. The organ, dated 1873, is housed in its original case at the west end, with two parts flanking the vestry and front stalls with top cresting. A round font sits on a quatrefoil column with roundels to the bowl. The chancel arch rests on triple-shafted responds, and a pulpit is situated to the south. The chancel features an arch-braced scissor roof, simple panelling, and a reredos. An arch leads to the north vestry. The east window contains stained glass dated 1870, while the south aisle contains an unusual pictorial-style window dated 1881 by D. Morette. The church displays good stone-carved details throughout.