Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter was built between 1872 and 1875 by G E Street, with later additions and alterations in 1893 by Temple Moore, commissioned by Sir Tatton Sykes. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with a tiled roof and pierced cresting.

The church features a west tower, a four-bay nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a higher chancel, and a vestry. The three-stage tower has a moulded plinth and a half-hexagonal vice with a statue of St Peter set in a niche beneath a gabled canopy. The west window has cinquefoil tracery, and there are pointed bell openings with pierced shutters. A low broach spire topped with a cockerel weather-vane rises above the tower. The north aisle has a gabled window, and the porch has a moulded pointed arch. The north side of the church contains a pointed doorway and three windows, while the chancel south side has two windows. A vestry was added to the north side, and the chancel east end holds a window of five cusped lancets. A moulded sill band encircles the church. Window tracery is geometrical, and coped gables with gable crosses adorn the nave, chancel, and porch.

Inside, the tall, narrow tower arch has three orders, with the inner order dying into the sides and the outer two being roll-moulded. The north arcade features pointed arches on clustered columns with moulded capitals. A wide, double-chamfered chancel arch also dies into the sides. There is a circular font with a carved wooden cover and fine wrought-iron work, a carved stone pulpit, and a carved stone altar-piece in the aisle with sculpted figures within three crocketed ogee-arched niches. A stone arcaded chancel altar-piece with a leafy frieze is also present, along with a low chancel screen of pointed wrought iron and carved pews by Temple Moore. The church contains stained glass by Burlison and Grylls. The nave roof is arch-braced with collar-beam construction and cusped wind-braced purlins. The aisle roof features corbelled arch braces with centre bosses and a moulded ridge piece. The porch has a pointed tunnel vault.