Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a church built in 1865, located in Ireleth, Barrow in Furness. It was commissioned by the Duke of Buccleuch on land donated by John Todd (Hobbs). The structure is made of rubble limestone with red sandstone dressings and features a graduated slate roof. It has a four-bay nave that includes a north porch and a bell tower at the north-east corner, along with a lower two-bay chancel that has a south vestry. The church is designed in the Gothic Revival style, characterized by geometrical tracery.

Notable architectural features include a chamfered plinth and diagonal buttresses at both the east and west ends. The gable copings are made of ashlar and topped with crosses. The gabled porch has a double chamfered arch and a hoodmould with head-carved stops, and there is a similar doorway and benches inside. The nave contains a cusped two-light window with quatrefoils, hoodmoulds, and relieving arches. The bell tower projects from the building and features quoins and a cusped doorway beneath a quatrefoil. The belfry has offsets and each side is adorned with a gable that includes three quatrefoils in a pointed arch with a hoodmould, topped by a slated pyramidal spire with a weathervane. The west window of the nave consists of two lights with a colonnette and a hexafoil above.

Inside, the church has contemporary pitch-pine fittings and scissor-braced trusses in the nave. The broad chancel arch is decorated with carved heads on the hoodmould stops, and the roof is arch-braced. The church is prominently situated overlooking the Duddon Estuary.