Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church built in 1849, with the Duke of Devonshire as its patron. It is constructed from coursed, squared sandstone with ashlar dressings and features a steeply-pitched graduated slate roof. The church has a three-bay nave, a small semi-octagonal chancel, and a west bellcote, all designed in the Early English Gothic Revival style. Notable architectural features include cusped lancets with hoodmoulds, offset buttresses at each corner, and a single door beneath a double-chamfered arch with a hoodmould, along with a two-light window above. The gablet kneelers and overlapped gable copings add to its character. The bellcote is buttressed and gabled, topped with a rolled lead ridge and an east gable cross. The chancel mirrors the nave with three windows and has a hipped roof. Inside, the church retains original benches and fitments, an octagonal stone font at the east end, and two figurative memorial windows on the south side. The chancel features encaustic tilework below coloured-glass windows adorned with heraldic devices. The church was built as a Chapel of Ease at a cost of £1,700, and a chapel has been present on this site since 1632, with a bell dated 1636 hanging in the west bellcote.