Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed chapel-of-ease built in 1890, located in Bideford. It is constructed of dressed stone rubble and features a double Roman clay tile roof with stone-coped gables topped with cross finials. The building has a broad nave with a large south porch, a chancel with a polygonal apse, and vestries on the north side, all designed in the Early English Victorian Gothic style.

On the exterior, the nave includes 2-light plate-tracery windows on both the north and south sides, with the south windows set in arched recesses between buttresses that have weathered set-offs. The easternmost south window has been converted into a doorway. At the west end, there is a triple-lancet window with a stone bellcote above the gable, flanked by buttresses and topped with a small obelisk-like finial that supports an iron cross. The chancel features lancet windows and a polygonal apse with cross-gables, while the large gabled stone porch is located on the south side.

Inside, the wide nave is open to an arch-braced timber roof, with trusses that extend down to stone corbels. The chancel roof has intersecting trusses leading to the apse. A large moulded chancel arch is present, and the furnishings remain intact, including benches, choir stalls, an organ, an ornate wrought-iron screen, and a pulpit. The stained glass windows are by Hardman and from the workshop of Arthur J. Dix. The vestry and choir vestry are unaltered. This church is a notable example of a late 19th-century chapel-of-ease in the Victorian Gothic style.