Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter, built between 1886 and 1889 by Henry Ross of Accrington, is a sandstone church with a steeply-pitched slate roof. The nave and chancel are under one roof, with the junction marked by a gabled bellcote featuring a fleche. The church has low aisles with gabled porches and cross roofs over the chancel chapels. The architectural style is primarily Geometrical. The gables are flanked by deep buttresses, which rise above the eaves to gablets at the west end and have offsets at the east end. The west window consists of four lights, while the east window has five lights, both topped with a loft window and a gable cross. The six-bay nave features shallow buttresses on alternate bays and deeper buttresses on the aisles. The nave has arched two-light windows, and the aisles have perpendicular-shaped windows with tracery. The nave and chancel are separated by plain buttresses that extend through the eaves to gablets. Each aisle's second bay includes a low gabled porch with distinctive details, including a moulded arch, gableted buttresses, and prominent gable coping that rises to a cross. Inside, the nave arcade consists of alternately cylindrical and octagonal columns with foliated capitals and double-chamfered arches. The chancel arch is high and moulded, and the clerestory windows have deeply-splayed reveals. The roof features a wagon design with king posts and struts that rise from an arch-braced tie-beam, supported by corbelled stone shafts.