Church of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating from the early 14th century, with significant alterations and rebuilding in the 15th century, 1728-30, and 1881-82. It is constructed of gritstone ashlar with a stainless steel roof concealed behind parapets. The church comprises a west steeple, a nave with north and south aisles, a south porch, and a chancel.

The west tower is of three unequal stages, divided by chamfers and with angle buttresses to the lower two stages. It features a two-light west window with cusped Y-tracery and crude two-light bell openings. A squat, broach spire, exhibiting entasis along its edges, rises from the tower. The tower is believed to have been reconstructed in 1728.

The aisles, clerestory, and south porch are of 15th-century design and unified appearance, all topped with battlements and crocketed pinnacles. The north and south aisles have two three-light windows with panel tracery. Similar windows are located at the east and west ends of the aisles. A plain doorway with wave moulding is present on the north side, while the south porch is two-storied with a polygonal stair turret on the southeast corner. The porch entrance features two orders of wave mouldings, surmounted by a cusped ogee vaulted niche containing a 19th-century figure. Numerous gargoyles adorn the building. The clerestory windows are of two cusped lights under square heads.

The chancel was rebuilt in 1881-82 in a poor Perpendicular style, featuring an east window, side windows of two ogee lights under square heads, and battlements and pinnacles. The interior of the porch has stone seats, interrupted on the east side by a doorway to the stair turret. A south door has two orders of wave mouldings. A studded oak door sits atop an older door.

Inside, four bay nave arcades have polygonal piers, moulded capitals, and double chamfered arches. A plain, double-chamfered tower arch is visible, along with evidence of the former roof line. A piscina and sedilia dating to around 1300 are found in the chancel, and a 14th-century piscina is in the south aisle. At the west end of the north aisle are two 13th-century foliated cross slabs. Original furnishings include three 17th-century chairs (two in the chancel, one in the north aisle), 17th-century altar rails, and a pulpit dated 1652. Panelling in the chancel and stall backs in the nave are constructed from old box pews, inscribed with numerous late 16th and early 17th-century dates. A panelled 18th-century dado in the aisles is inscribed with names and dates. A rare, painted hymn board dated 1806 has a painting of David on the back, and two 18th-century charity boards are also present. A painted board records work done in 1730. A font features a 12th-century bowl. Two framed paintings above the south door (dated 1733) depict 'Aaron' and 'life', while two above the north door display 'Moses' and 'Death'. A marble and alabaster reredos from 1910 contains a vestry behind, mirroring a motif found in Tideswell and Sawley. A chancel screen was installed in 1935. Significant stained glass windows are present, including those in the north aisle east and northeast windows (1919, by F.C. Eden), chancel windows (by Kempe), and a south aisle window (also by Kempe).