Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church built in 1856 by Thomas Nicholson in a Decorated style. It is constructed from squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a tiled roof. The church includes a west tower, a nave with a north porch, north and south transeptal chapels, and a chancel with a south vestry.

The west tower has three stages, is buttressed, and features two string courses and an embattled parapet. A hexagonal stair turret extends from the north side, rising higher than the tower, and there is a small doorway on the north. The second stage has a clock face on the north side, and the west window consists of two trefoiled ogee-headed lights and an octofoil.

The nave has four bays, with a north porch at the west end and a north chapel to the east, flanked by two 2-light windows with decorated tracery. There are three similar windows on the south side, and the north chapel features elongated cinquefoil-headed lights with a sexfoil in a curved-sided triangle, mirrored by a similar window in the south chapel. The gabled north porch has a two-centred arched-headed outer doorway adorned with ball flower ornamentation on the outer moulding, a hood mould with head stops, and attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases.

The chancel comprises two bays with a string course and buttressing, featuring two windows with two trefoiled-headed lights and decorative tracery. The east window consists of four cinquefoiled-headed lights with decorated tracery, while the south wall of the vestry has paired trefoil-headed lights.

Inside, the church has a trussed rafter roof with embattled wall-plates in both the nave and chancel. The tower arch is composed of two moulded orders, with the inner order dying into responds. The chancel arch is two-centred and pointed, with octagonal plan attached shafts and moulded capitals and bases. A contemporary octagonal font features decorative traceried panels and a moulded underside with roundels and quatrefoils.