Church Of St Peter

Church of St Peter

Parish church of 1854, designed by S. S. Teulon. Built in red brick with some blue brick and ashlar dressings. The building comprises a nave with north aisle, south porch, north organ chamber and vestry, north-east tower, and chancel. The roofs are plain and fish-scale tiles with coped gables and single ridge crosses to the west and east nave, east chancel, porch and organ chamber. Two stacks rise from the north aisle. The building stands on a chamfered plinth and is buttressed throughout.

The west wall of the nave features a central two-light pointed arched window with reticulated tracery, hood mould and human head label stops, flanked by single-light windows set lower. A continuous stepped sill band runs across, with a single cinquefoil in the apex and continuous hood mould. The west wall of the north aisle has a single arched two-light window with reticulated tracery.

The north wall includes a doorway with plank door, to its left three trefoil arched lights. The projecting organ chamber rises beyond. Above the organ chamber, a large trefoil arched window dominates, with a central arched niche containing colonnettes and decorative capitals framing a carved angel figure. Hood mould and label stops crown this feature. Either side are single trefoil arched lights with central quatrefoils above, hood moulds and label stops. A stepped sill band extends around the west and east sides. The vestry, set back to the left, contains a single quatrefoil window. Its east wall has a single arched window with two trefoil arched lights and a single transom.

The tower is set obliquely and incorporates a slightly projecting lean-to containing a moulded arched doorway with a single pair of colonnettes, decorative capitals, ogee arched hood mould, human head label stops and decorative finial. Above this is a single pointed arched light with reticulated tracery, flanked by colonnettes with decorative capitals. A clock face sits above. The north-west side has a single blind trefoil arch corbelled out, over which an octagonal plinth supports the louvred octagonal cupola with conical roof. Each face of the plinth is decorated with a single blind quatrefoil.

The north chancel has a single arched two-light window with reticulated tracery, hood mould and human head label stops, with a stepped sill band extending east and south. The east chancel features a single arched three-light window with cusped tracery, hood mould and human head label stops. The south chancel contains a two-light arched window and, to its left, a three-light arched window, both with reticulated tracery, hood moulds and human head label stops.

The south nave wall has a single arched single-light window with reticulated tracery, followed by three similar two-light windows. The porch projects at the south-west corner with a moulded and chamfered arched entrance supported on a single pair of colonnettes with decorative capitals, hood mould and human head label stops. Each side wall of the porch has a single pair of trefoil arched lights. An inner moulded and chamfered arched doorway with hood mould and human head label stops gives access to the interior, with a single-light reticulated window to the left.

Internally, the nave comprises five bays with an arcade; the left-hand bay is narrower. Double chamfered arches spring from octagonal columns with high plinths and moulded capitals. The easternmost capital and east respond capital feature foliate decoration. Hood mould to the nave side carries a carved angel with decorative label stops. The chancel arch is moulded and chamfered, its inner order supported on circular responds with fillets and foliate-decorated capitals. Hood mould and human head label stops face the nave. A single blind trefoil arch is corbelled out to the left. The vestry doorway has a pointed arch containing a trefoil, hood mould and decorative left label stop. The chancel roof is supported on angel-carved corbels.

The font and pulpit are 19th-century decorative ashlar work. Remaining furnishings date from the 19th and 20th centuries.