Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church built between 1939 and 1942, designed by Brundell & Faran of Doncaster and constructed by P P Taylor. It is built of painted and rendered brick with brick dressings, and has blue/green glazed pantile roofs. The church comprises a broad nave, a west porch, and a domed chancel to the east, with a Lady Chapel to the north-east and a vestry to the south-east. All windows have metal casements with brick cills.

The west front features a projecting, flat-roofed porch with a central triple-arched entrance flanked by two plain columns, and a slate foundation plaque inscribed in Latin above. Small 2-light casement windows on either side of the porch illuminate staircases to the gallery. A niche with a projecting semi-circular base and canopy is found on the left return. Above the porch is a broad gable with three graduated, round-headed windows and a round-headed bell opening with bell. The north and south facades are each punctuated by five round-headed windows.

The north front has a flat-headed doorway to the left and a projecting, single-storey chapel with three 2-light casement windows. The south front includes a projecting vestry with a tall brick chimney stack, a round-headed doorway reached up four concrete steps on the west front, and three 2-light casements on the south front. The eastern chancel is tall and features a blank, canted apse topped with a pantiled half-dome, with two tall, round-headed windows to the north and south. Above this, a set-back octagon supports an octagonal dome covered with pantiles and finished with a cross finial.

The interior features three round-headed nave arches and smaller, narrow side arches defining passageway aisles. A west gallery, accessible by side stairs, houses a late-nineteenth-century organ. The west wall contains a chrome-plated poor box and a nineteenth-century stone font from the former church. The nave floor is laid with a herring-bone pattern wood block. The round-headed chancel arch is reached by five marble steps, flanked by single niches on either side. The chancel additionally contains a round-headed niche, triple arched sedillia, and a rectangular marble altar accessible via three marble steps. The Lady Chapel incorporates tomb fragments from the earlier, medieval parish church. Other furnishings include a wooden pulpit, a wooden lectern, and painted wooden pews.

The church was built using the proceeds from the sale of a Victorian church on a separate site, and it contains a rich collection of both old and contemporary fittings. It is recognised as a good example of a late 1930s church and possesses group value from that recognition.