Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church built in 1860 by the architect Paley. It is constructed from sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The church consists of a nave, a north aisle with a pitched roof, a north porch, and a lower chancel. The three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, and a solid parapet supported by a corbel table, which is pierced by lancet openings. An octagonal turret rises above the parapet on the north side. The bell openings consist of two trefoiled lights beneath a pointed head, with angle shafts and hoods. The second stage of the tower has trefoiled single lights on each side, and below is a west window with a pointed head and two trefoiled lights. The three south nave windows are similar in style and are separated by buttresses. The east window features three lights with Geometric tracery. At the east end of the north aisle, there is a wheel window, and to the east of the porch on the north side are two aisle windows that match those of the nave. The outer porch doorway has shafts with foliated capitals, and the inner arch has a head with large cusps.

Inside, the church is finished with local brick and sandstone dressings. The three-bay arcade features moulded pointed arches on piers of four clustered columns with foliated capitals. The high moulded tower arch is decorated with ball flower motifs, and the moulded chancel arch has responds of three clustered shafts. The open timber roof includes arch-braced collars, king posts, and cusped windbraces, with some timbers carved with nailhead ornament. The east window was made in 1867 by Messrs. Powell of Whitefriars, while two south windows were added in 1880 and 1890 by Shrigley and Hunt. The tower window was created in 1874 by F. Burrow.