Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST PETER (1335457)

Church. 1869 by S.Rollinson, steeple added in 1887. Coursed, sandstone with gritstone dressings. Plain and fishscale tiled and slated steeply pitched roofs. Stone coped gables with cross finials. Nave with south west steeple and north vestry, chancel with polygonal apse and north vestry. Early English Style. Tower with angle buttresses with two set offs, the lower ones gableted. Pointed arch doorway to the south with filleted roll and a chamfer on colonnettes with stiff- leaf capitals. Trefoil arch set in.C19 plank doors with scrolled hinges. West and east sides with a low pointed-arched window with cinquefoil set in. Single narrow lancets above to west, east and south. Bell stage with broaches becoming octagonal. Four tall lancet bell openings and four small pointed arched openings above the broaches. Octagonal spire with lucarnes and tiny trefoil lucarnes. South side of the nave with three 2-light windows with plate tracery and buttresses between. Chancel with a 3-light window with plate tracery. Polygonal apse with five lancets. Vestry attached to north side of chancel. C20 vestry attached to north side of nave with a 4-light window with square section mullions. Two 2-light plate traceried windows to the right. West window of five stepped lancets within a single arch with colonnettes. Spacious interior with scissor brace nave roof. Apse with scissor brace nave roof. Apse with boarded roof painted in 1901. Chancel arch responds with marble shafts and shaft rings. Tiled floors. Blind arcade around the apse enriched with dogtooth. Stained glass in most windows. East window 1900 and chancel south 1911, signed by T F Curtis, Ward & Hughes. Listing NGR: SK4078270954