History

This parish began an independent life in 1908 as a daughter of St Augustine's, Neutral Bay. [And St Augustine's was a daughter church of St Thomas, North Sydney.]

The sanctuary, tower, transepts and first bay were built in 1909 and opened for worship in May that year. The rest of the nave, the baptistry and porch were built in 1910 and dedicated by Archbishop Wright on 26 May 1911.

In 1912 St Peter's was made a full parish with Synod representation.

The parish hall was begun in 1922 as a war memorial and opened in 1923 by William Morris Hughes MHR. The church itself, being free of debt, was consecrated by Archbishop Mowll on 5 December 1948.

Ernest Alfred Scott, the architect of St Peter's, was strongly influenced by the first rector, the Rev'd James Chaseling. Accordingly, the building was designed in the light of the principles of the Oxford Movement, the nineteenth century Catholic Revival which had begun in the Church of England in the 1830s.

The building is in the neo-Gothic Federation style and the sanctuary arches are regarded as an impressive feature.

In 1979 the sanctuary was remodelled and enlarged in accordance with the insights of the liturgical movement which had been steadily growing in the wider Church for some years.