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St. Peter's Hall dates from around 1280 (the Library Bar area) but was extended in 1539 using 14th and 15th Century ‘architectural salvage' taken from Flixton Priory, a monastic establishment dissolved by Cardinal Wolsey in the 1520's. The brewery at St. Peter's is housed in the buildings surrounding the Hall which were used for agriculture until the late Sixties. They offered a superb site both for a working brewery and a visitors' attraction. Marvel
at the fascinating features and history that the hall offers
including carvings on the front facade and the tombstone
in the entrance.
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The brewery has been built to the highest possible specification and uses stainless steel brewing equipment clad in copper or douglas fir and high quality fixed pipework. An open plan design was specified so that visitors could easily see how beer is brewed.
The brewery has been laid out around the Hall's courtyard so that the production process is easy to follow - raw materials come in at the end and are milled, brewing takes place up one side of the quadrangle, the fermentation vessels are mainly at the top end, and cask filling, bottle filling and despatch take place along the fourth side. An adjoining medieval thatched barn is used for storage.
