Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter, built in 1853 by E.G. Paley of Lancaster, is a Gothic-style church located on Church Lane in Rylstone. It is constructed from coursed squared gritstone and features a graduated stone slate roof. The building includes a three-stage west tower, a four-bay nave and chancel combined, north and south aisles, and a south porch.

The tower is characterized by offset diagonal buttresses, a staircase on the southeast side, and Perpendicular-style west windows: three lights with a hoodmould on the first stage, two lights on the second stage, and flat-headed three-light windows in a 15th to 16th-century style on each side of the third stage, also with hoodmoulds. The tower is topped with a moulded crenellated parapet.

The nave and chancel feature a Decorated-style porch and two-light side windows, each with hoodmoulds. The clerestory windows match those of the tower's third stage, while the east window is a five-light Decorated style.

Inside, the porch has side benches supported by fragments of cusped window tracery. The nave is supported by octagonal pillars that hold double-chamfered arches, and there is a wide tower arch with a corbelled inner order and a plain chancel arch. The church contains a contemporary pulpit and font.

There are also memorials in the chancel: one to Richard Waddilove Esquire of Rylstone, who left £1000 for the church's rebuilding and died in 1850, and another to Abraham Maude, who contributed to the rebuilding of the church school, schoolhouse, and rectory, who died around 1876.