St Peter's Church, Rock Ferry

The church is constructed in sandstone with slate roofs. The nave and steeple are in a variation of the Neo-Norman style, and the chancel is Gothic Revival. The plan consists of a six-bay nave, a chancel with a north organ chamber and a south vestry, and a west tower with a spire. The tower is in three stages with clasping buttresses and a west door. Above the door is a pair of round-headed windows under a segmental arch. In the top stage are triple bell openings. The cornice at the top of the tower has corner corbels carved with winged beasts. On the tower is a broach spire with lucarnes. Along the sides of the nave the bays are divided by square pilaster buttresses rising to fluted finials.[lower-alpha 1] The windows are round-headed. On the sides of the chancel are two-light Decorated windows, and the east window consists of triple stepped lancets.[2]

The interior of the church was refurbished after the war damage. A ceiling was added, and the interior was subdivided.[3] The octagonal font of 1853 is panelled. The choir stalls and panelling in the chancel are dated 1884 and 1923.[2] The stained glass in the east window dates from 1958 and depicts saints; it is by William Morris of Westminster.[2][3] The church had a pipe organ built by Henry Willis which originally had two manuals, to which and a choir section was added later by H. Ainscough. It was damaged in the war and replaced in the 1950s with an organ by Nicholson and Lord of Walsall.[5] There is a ring of six bells, all of which were re-cast in 1914 by John Taylor & Co.[6][7]