Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church located in Thruxton, originally built in the 13th century and later modified in the 15th century, with a complete restoration in 1869. The church features a chancel with a north vestry and organ recess, a nave with a north aisle consisting of two bays, a west tower, and a south porch, all designed in the Decorated style. The roof is covered with plain tiles, and the walls are constructed from large knapped flints, accented with stone dressings including quoins, buttresses, a plinth, and reticulated tracery. The vestry has thin horizontal flint panels and brick quoins, bands, and diagonal buttresses.

Inside, the church showcases Victorian Decorated features. On the north side of the chancel, there are unequal Perpendicular arches with panelled soffits; the smaller eastern arch covers an altar tomb made of Purbeck marble, which has male and female effigies dating from around 1510. The south side features an earlier Perpendicular canopy arch above an altar tomb with an unmarked brass inset; the south face of this tomb is located outside the church and is associated with a restoration ogee-headed priests' door and a traceried window. A 19th-century Perpendicular table top tomb serves as an altar at the east end of the aisle. Additional interior elements include a pillar piscina, a 13th-century chancel arch, and a Norman tower arch. The tower contains two vertical slabs, one depicting an eroded figure of a knight from around 1200. The altar reredos dates to 1843, while the font and seating were added in 1844. The chancel floor features a fine brass of a knight in armour, Sir John Lysle, from 1407, and at the west end of the aisle, there is an oak carved statue of a lady, Elizabeth Philpotts, dressed in Elizabethan costume with a ruff, puffed sleeves, and wide skirts.

The tower, built in 1801, is made of ashlar and consists of three plain stages, topped with a crenellated parapet adorned with small crocketted pinnacles at each corner. Uniquely, the porch, designed in the Perpendicular style, is attached to the east side of the tower's south wall.