Parish Church of St. Peter

The Parish Church of St. Peter is a Grade II listed building designed in the Decorated Gothic style. It features a nave, chancel, and full-height north and south aisles, along with a vestry and southwest porch. The church is constructed from local snecked rubble with yellow rubble banding and pink Runcorn freestone dressings, topped with purple slate roofs that have green slate patterned banding and tiled cresting. Architectural details include gable parapets, stepped buttresses, a plinth, and a cill band. The east end showcases a chequerboard patterned gable and a five-light window, while the aisles are set back on either side, featuring four-bay designs with four-light windows on the south aisle and alternating two and four-light windows on the north. The priests' door is located in the chequerboard gabled vestry on the south side, which also includes an early Decorated two-light window. The south porch is asymmetrically gabled and has a three-order arch with dying mouldings over rounded jambs, along with a two-order arched doorway with foliage stops to the label and a smaller similar doorway to the south aisle. The west end has Y-tracery derived windows and a corbelled-out bellcote with a trefoil-headed opening, while the south aisle also features a chequerboarded gable.

Inside, the church has a spacious interior with open timber roofs, rendered walls, and tone arcades, consisting of five bays on the north and six bays on the south. The piers are octagonal with capitals, more elaborately moulded on the north side. The central nave features arched braced trusses with windbraces and stone springers, along with stop-chamfered tie beams and octagonal king posts in the north aisle roof. The chancel contains a piscina and sedilia, as well as a panelled oak reredos with Flamboyant tracery carving that frames a central triptych with mosaic pictures. Additional features include a Gothic panelled pulpit and an elaborate circular font dated 1889 at the west end, alongside a plain octagonal font in the north aisle. A picture of the Baptism of Christ by Harvey Thomas, created in 1979, is also displayed.