While the architect of St Peter's was either Francis or William Smith, the supervision of its construction was entrusted to Abraham Hayward, who came from Whitchurch, Shropshire.

[1] Abraham Hayward built himself a house on a site adjacent St Peter's church, which had previously been the Taylors' Hall in Lincoln.

[3] The chancel and apse of the church were decorated with a fresco of the Ascension by the Venetian artist Vincenzo Damini who also carried out some work at Lincoln Cathedral.

[5] The gabled and rusticated front of the Buttermarket was rebuilt to plans by the architect Robert Atkinson in 1938 on a site on Sincil Street, just south of the river Witham.

[6] Norwich Union House was constructed on the site St Peter's Church in 1936, in a classical Neo-Georgian style by the architect Phillip Nicholls of Leeds.