Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church dating from 1892 to 1894, designed by Paley, Austin and Paley. It is constructed of dressed limestone with sandstone ashlar dressings, tile roofs, and a shingled spire. The building comprises a nave, a crossing tower with a spire, north and south transepts with west aisles, a north vestry, and a chancel. It is executed in a Free Perpendicular style, featuring coped gables and ashlar bands with gutters on scrolled brackets.

The three-bay nave has a gabled south porch with a 3-centred arch entrance featuring continuous mouldings, foliate spandrels, and a label mould with embattled returns; a niche with a statue sits above the entrance. Three-light straight-headed south windows have Perpendicular tracery. The west end has deep diagonal buttresses and a gable cross, with a 4-light window displaying mostly uncusped tracery. The north side has windows of 3 and 2+2 lights. The tower incorporates a south-east octagonal stair turret, with the east and west lights having cusped 3-centred heads. The bell stage possesses sill and lintel courses, paired 2-light straight-headed louvred bell openings, a coped embattled parapet, and a recessed spire with a weathercock.

The south transept has deep weathered buttresses and a 3-light segmental-headed window with Perpendicular tracery. A lean-to aisle is present with 2-cusped light straight-headed windows to the west and a single light to the south. The north transept is similar but is extended as a vestry, featuring an asymmetrical gable, one buttress, and a projecting lateral stack; to the east are single- and 3-light windows, and a re-entrant porch with a buttress above. The chancel has a 5-light east window with Perpendicular tracery and a gable cross. North and south 2-light straight-headed traceried windows are present. A foundation stone is located to the east, and the south-west angle features a re-entrant entrance to a turret.

The interior is lined with dressed sandstone. The nave roof incorporates 2 arch braced collars and upper collars, ovolo moulded, with hollow-chamfered purlins, the lower ones moulded, and wind braces. A dent fossil marble font, 8-sided with simple moulding and keeled piers with shafts, is present, along with a cover dated 1965. Timber features include a pulpit, pews, and wall shelves, all with blind tracery panels. Crossing arches die into octagonal piers, with similar arches to the transept aisles. The north transept contains an organ, and crossing choir stalls; the south transept aisle showcases an ornate 19th-century font and a 1898 Kempe window. A half-arch leads to the vestry passage from the chancel, with a south sedilia and piscina having concave arches. The barrel vaulted roof incorporates braced collars with tracery panels, moulded purlins, and ribs. An alabaster reredos sits before a timber altar, complemented by a wrought iron communion rail with a check pattern. The east window is dated 1894 and was designed by Kempe. The church exhibits a high level of detail.