Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church dating from 1880, designed by Paley and Austin. It is constructed of dressed slate with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof. The building comprises a nave, west tower, chancel, a north transept, and a vestry. Quoins are present throughout. The tower has large diagonal buttresses and a south stair turret that has been weathered. The tower’s dripcourses are interrupted by cusped, louvred bell openings with a continuous label mould. The saddleback roof has coped gables to the east and west, and embattled parapets with spouts to the north and south. A 3-light west window with Perpendicular tracery includes a plaque and a lead panel dated 1726, referencing a previous building on the site. A basement entrance and ogee-headed light are visible on the north side, mirrored by a similar light to the south. The 3-bay nave features straight-headed windows of 2 and 3 lights with cusping. A south gabled porch, built of timber on a stone base, has moulded members, tracery panels, and a moulded segmental-arched opening. The 2-bay chancel has a sill course, a gable cross, and 2- and 1-light straight-headed windows with double cusped lights to the south. The east window is 4-light and traceried, with the sill course continuing above a small buttress to form a label mould for the vestry window, which is of 4 lights with 3-centred heads. The transept has two gabled bays and straight-headed traceried windows of 2 lights, a rainwater head to the valley gutter, and a cross-axial stack to the east bay. The vestry, situated under a swept catslide roof to the east, has an entrance with a 3-centred head. The interior features waggon roofs with moulded members; the tower arch has a continuous double chamfer. Good stained glass is present in the west window. A tapered, octagonal font has roll mouldings. A wall memorial to Christopher (died 1845) and Catherine (died 1851) Wilson is richly ornamented in a Gothic style, featuring pinnacles and a nodding ogee canopy. The chancel arch is similar to the tower arch, and arches to the transept from the nave and chancel die into the jambs. The chancel has ashlar facing below the sill course and on the entire east wall. A timber pulpit, situated on a stone base, has moulded panels, while the timber lectern and stalls possess blind and pierced tracery. The altar rails feature turned balusters over middle rails. A panelled recess under the south window contains two seats, and the north recess has a moulded sill and a sunk ogee to the head. The transept features valley arch braces. Good 19th-century stained glass is present in the north-west window. The vestry entrance has a sunk ogee and tracery to the lintel.