[2] In addition to Sunday and weekday services, the church and adjacent hall serve as a hub for various community activities and events.
[6] Replacing an iron church which had stood on the site for 10 years, St Peter's was built between 1892 and 1893 to accommodate the growing suburb of North Ealing.
[8] Sedding's plans for the church were complimented by The Builder magazine as "a piece of real originality in design, which is refreshing to come across after seeing so many repetitions of old forms, Classic and Gothic".
The exterior of the building is also of note on account of the long steep nave roof with shallow chains of arches connecting small turrets.
However, the building's substantial four-bay nave with Gothic triforium,[9] allied with the clear glass of the windows and the lack of ornamentation, make the church unusually light and spacious.
Shuffrey designed the font (executed by Messers Blackler of Torquay and dedicated in 1911) as well as the decoration of the alabaster high altar table.
[4] In 1896 a visit was paid to the newly completed St Peter's by the members of the Architectural Association, who afterwards received tea at Thorncote, Shuffrey's new Queen Anne style house on Edgehill Road.
The work also included the addition fine wall paintings of the Annunciation angels over the reredos in the Lady Chapel, executed by watercolour artist Henry Charles Brewer.
[3] It runs a local walking group, hosts the Ealing Churches Winter Night Shelter[11] and an organ recital series.
St Peter's also holds an Amnesty letter writing group, book club, junior church and Sunday choir.