Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Wirral local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1974. Parish church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
fallen-pillar-yew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wirral
Constituency
Birkenhead MP: Alison McGovern (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
28 March 1974
Type
Parish church
Address
Church of St Peter, St Peter's Road
OS grid reference
SJ 334 863
Coordinates
53.3694, -3.0019
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter is a parish church located on St Peter's Road in Rock Ferry, built in 1841 by Hurst and Moffat. It was partly remodelled in 1884 and again after suffering extensive damage during World War II. The church features a loose Neo-Norman style and is constructed from coursed and squared sandstone with slate roofs.

The building includes a west tower with a spire, a nave, a chancel, and vestries with side chapels projecting to the north and south. The three-stage west tower has clasping buttresses and a west door adorned with triple recessed shafts. Above the door, there are paired round-arched lights set within a single segmental arch, and the upper stage features triple bell-chamber lights. Heavy winged beast corbels are positioned at the angles of the cornice, and the broach spire is topped with lucarnes.

The nave consists of six bays, divided by square pilaster buttresses with fluted finials. It has round-arched windows with recessed shafts and outer hood moulds. A half-bay at the west end includes a doorway flanked by buttresses, with a small window above. The upper sections of the nave walls were rebuilt following war damage. The chancel, added around 1884 in a gothic style, features two-light Decorated windows on the north and south sides, and a stepped Early English three-light east window, all with contrasting white stone dressings.

The north chapel and organ chamber are part of the original structure, while the vestry to the south is a later addition, both designed in a Neo-Norman style. The interior was extensively refurbished after the war damage, retaining a single span with a new roof covering that incorporates remnants of the original corbels. The chancel arch is simply moulded, and there is an octagonal panelled font dated 1853. The choir stalls and wall panelling in the chancel date from 1884 and 1923, and the east window features stained glass figures of saints, likely added around 1950.

Local climate

Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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