St Peters Church

St Peters Church is a stone building in Marrickville featuring a bell tower, sandstone trim around openings, and slate roofing across its main body and transepts. The structure follows the traditional design of an Anglican church with defined sections for worship and burial grounds adjacent to the building.

The building was constructed between 1838 and 1839 from a design by Thomas Bird, ranking it among Sydney's oldest Anglican churches. Its establishment was foundational to the area's development and shaped how the surrounding community grew and organized itself.

The graveyard serves as a burial place for notable Sydney residents and tells stories of lives connected to the city's early development. Visitors can read the names on gravestones and sense the long history of families and community ties preserved in this ground.

The building underwent structural repairs in 2009 to address damage caused by its clay-based soil foundation. Visitors should be aware this is an active place of worship and should approach with appropriate respect for ongoing religious use.

The church gave the entire suburb of St Peters its name, with the connection tracing back to early land grants from 1799. This link between a single religious building and the naming of an entire neighborhood reveals how foundational such places were to early urban growth.