Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter, built between 1889 and 1891 by C Hodgson Fowler, is located on Langton Road in Norton-on-Derwent. This church is constructed of chiseled sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. It includes a west tower, a six-bay aisled nave with a clerestory, a south porch, a chancel, a vestry, an organ chamber, and a south chapel.

The four-stage buttressed tower sits on a plinth and has a west door with a pointed head beneath a stopped hood-mould. Above the door is a four-light window with reticulated tracery and a chamfered sill, also topped with a stopped ogee-arched hood-mould. The third stage has a bracketed ledge with a statue of St Peter beneath a crocketed canopy. Each face of the tower features two-light mullion and transom bell openings under crocketed ogee arches, set above a corbelled chamfered band. The corbel table beneath the embattled parapet is adorned with crocketed pinnacles and waterspouts.

The south porch has a gabled opening with a two-centred arch on half-octagonal shafts, featuring a continuous hood-mould that forms an impost band. Above this is a triple-arched niche. The pointed doors of the porch are fitted with long foliate wrought-iron hinges. The buttressed nave has two-light windows with reticulated tracery beneath pointed hood-moulds, along with a continuous sill band. The clerestory windows are similar but consist of three lights. The tall west window has five lights with reticulated tracery and a chamfered sill band. The nave, chancel, and porch all have coped gables and gable crosses.

Inside, the church features a tall quoined tower arch with three chamfered orders, and a pointed arcade with two chamfered orders on octagonal piers. The chancel arch consists of two orders that spring from responds with attached shafts. The square font is decorated with blind arcading on a cylindrical pedestal with a roll-moulded foot. The pulpit and tester are by W Brierley, and there is a stained glass window by Kempe.