Church of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a former parish church built between 1847 and 1848, designed by architect S.W. Daukes and constructed by builder Thomas Haines. The church features a west window added in 1858 by William Wailes and was built at a cost of £4,838. It is made of stone with plain tile roofs and is designed in the Romanesque style, featuring a cruciform plan with a large central dome.

The exterior includes a tall central crossing tower with a circular upper stage and a conical roof. The church has a four-bay nave, a wide transept, and a short chancel with an apse. The windows are single-light with cogged moulding at the heads and round-arched hoodmoulds, while the east end has three tall round-arched lights. The tower features twin belfry openings with a central column and round arch, topped with a pyramidal roof.

Inside, the church exhibits a Norman style with chevron tower arches and a dome. The use of semicircular arch bracing in the roof complements the Classical forms of the Romanesque style. There are galleries in the north and south transepts and at the west end, supported by wooden columns with scalloped capitals. The interior also features Neo-Norman plasterwork.

Architectural critics have praised the church, with Goodhart-Rendel calling it "really a great success" and Teresa Sladen noting its significance as an important early Victorian church due to its early and unusual use of the Romanesque style, likening it to indigenous examples such as the Round Church at Cambridge, which was restored in 1841 and highly praised by The Ecclesiologist.

Historically, S.W. Daukes took over The Park development from Thomas Billings.