A subscription for the erection of the church was commenced and the foundation stone was laid in April, 1870. The church is of the decorated style of architecture, from a design by Mr. Hirst, of Bristol, and consists of a nave of five bays, 70 feet in length by 27 feet in breadth, with north and south aisles, each 15 feet 9 inches wide; the last bay at the eastern end of the aisle on each side projects outwards to double its former breadth, in the form of a transept, which is gabled outwardly; the chancel will be about 35 feet in length by 22 feet in breadth, terminating in a circular apse, the interior of which will be arcaded. A tower, bearing a spire, is situate at the west end of the south aisle.
The living is a curacy or vicarage, the income of which is £100 a year, paid by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The first incumbent – the Rev. L. F. W. Foote – appointed in 1870.[2]
The chancel, with a temporary nave, was consecrated on Sunday 10 September 1871 by Reverend Bishop Ryan, vicar of Bradford.[3]
List of Vicars
Lundy Edward William Foote 1870 – 1922
John Manstead Cunningham 1922 – 1937
Gascoigne Cecil Clare 1937 – 1947 (formerly vicar of St Edmund's, Roundhay, Leeds)
Jack Spencer 1935 – 1970 (previously organist of St Stephen's Church, Kirkstall, Leeds)
J Harry Hodgson 1970 – 1976
Adrian Selway 1976 – 1981
Ian Linford 1980 – 1984
Ralph S Franklin 1984 – 1987
Hugh Shelton 1987 – 1988
Nigel Holdsworth 1988 – 1993
Philip Wilby 1993 – 1997
Richard Hunt 1997 – 2003
Oliver Longstaff 2003 – 2012
John Longstaff 2012 – present
Bells
St Peter's has a fine ring of eight bells in the tower which were cast by John Taylor of Loughborough. They achieved a certain notoriety when they became the first tower in the United Kingdom to have an injunction made on the bells for an offence of noise pollution.
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