St Peters Church, Anglican church in St Peters, Sydney, Australia

St Peter's Anglican Church stands at 187-209 Princes Highway in St Peters, New South Wales, not Marrickville. Thomas Bird designed it, and it was built of sun-dried bricks with ironbark internal columns from nearby Gannon's Forest, a plaster vaulted ceiling and stained glass imported from England. Its footprint measures 90 by 35 feet and fronts the highway, formerly Cook's River Road.

The church was built between 1838 and 1839 from a design by Thomas Bird, making it one of the oldest Anglican churches in Sydney. It was established at a time when the surrounding area was still thinly settled, and the church became one of the few fixed points around which the local community organized.

The suburb takes its name from the church, which is also called St Peter's Church, Cooks River after its Anglican parish. Alexander Brodie Spark, a trustee and the owner of the nearby Tempe estate, hosted celebrations at Tempe House after the church was licensed in 1839. He was buried in the churchyard, though the grave's location is uncertain.

St Peters Church is an active place of worship, so visitors should be respectful and quiet, especially during services. The graveyard on the grounds is generally accessible and can be explored outside of service times without difficulty.

The church gave its name to the entire suburb of St Peters, a connection that traces back to land grants from 1799. It is rare for a single church building to have so directly shaped the name of a whole suburb.