A valued reader alerted me to St. Peter Catholic Church in St. Charles, so we thought we would head over and check it out.

The parish, the second one in the city, was organized in 1848, somehow appropriate considering the turmoil happening in Europe at the time. The first, of course, was St. Charles Borromeo.

The current church dates from 1861, and as I’ve mentioned many times before in relation to the Romanesque Revival style in St. Louis while certainly it has the stylistic elements of that style, it really has the massing of the Gothic Revival.

The spire is so typically German with the octagonal portion of the shaft. The clock is accurate. We really nailed it by visiting right in the middle of Saturday evening mass so we could not view the interior. Maybe sometime soon.

There are prominent transepts and a curved apse. Overall, it’s a beautiful church and one of the oldest in the region.