Church Of St Peter

The Church of St. Peter is a church built between 1849 and 1850 by Charles Reed, with later enlargements. It is constructed from yellow sandstone snecked rubble, featuring a gritstone plinth and dressings, and has a slate roof with red ridging tiles. The church includes a nave with a north-west belfry turret, transepts, and a chancel, all designed in an Early English style characterized by steeply pitched roofs and lancet windows.

The west façade features a gableted doorway with three orders. A moulded band runs around the building from the eaves of the gablet, stepping down to the sill level of the aisles. The west front has a second band, interrupted by the gablet, from which rise two tall lancets with hoodmoulds that have foliated stops. Above these is a vesica window with an inner band of dogtoothing. At the north-west corner, there is a polygonal four-stage stair turret topped by an octagonal belfry, which is capped with a short spire and steep gablets above the openings.

The aisles are buttressed and consist of five bays, most featuring coupled lancets. The second bay on the north side has a steeply gabled porch that resembles the west doorway. The clerestory has six cusped single-light windows. The transepts, added in 1910, are rock-faced and have low angle-buttresses with three stepped lancets. The east window consists of three stepped lights, with the center light being very high, all enclosed by a detached hoodmould.

Inside, the church features a five-bay nave arcade with alternately cylindrical and octagonal columns topped with moulded caps. The roofs of the nave and chancel are arch-braced kingpost structures, while the transept roofs are scissor-braced. The windows in the north transept contain 15th and 16th-century French and Flemish stained glass, which was given to the church in 1937.