Church of St Peter and St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II* listed building located in Shiplake. It dates from the 13th century, with alterations from the 15th century and restoration carried out in 1869 by G.E. Street. The church is constructed of flint with stone dressings and has a plain tile roof. It features a four-bay nave with aisles, a two-bay chancel, and a west tower, all designed in the Early English style.

The entrance has a studded 19th-century door set within a timber-framed porch on a stone base, topped with a gabled tiled roof. To the left, there is a 19th-century lancet window and a buttress at the end. To the right, there is another 19th-century lancet window with a buttress, along with a paired lancet window beneath a common two-arched hood, and a buttress to the right end. The chancel features two 19th-century two-light lancet windows with trefoil heads, and a buttress between the windows and at the east end. The east windows of the south aisle, chancel, and north aisle consist of three lancets. At the rear, there is a 19th-century vestry to the left with a two-light mullioned window on the left and a plank door to the right. The north aisle has three three-light lancet windows. The tower, located to the right, has three floors, with a two-centred arched door on the ground floor, a single window on the first floor, and bar tracery openings with louvres on the second floor. The parapet is adorned with stone battlements. The left return front displays three three-light windows featuring reticulated tracery. The nave aisles and chancel have separate gabled roofs.

Inside, the church has transitional arcades in the nave, a 13th-century piscina in the south aisle, and a reset 16th-century brass on the wall of the south aisle. There are various monuments in the chancel and south aisle. Notably, there is 15th-century glass from the abbey church of Saint-Bertin at Saint-Omer in France, located in the east windows of the chancel and south aisle, as well as in the south windows of the chancel and south aisle, and the west window of the south aisle. The font, designed by G.E. Street, features a rectangular basin supported on columns with foliated caps and a stepped base. The chancel also includes sedilia, a piscina, and a reredos at the altar, along with pews, all crafted by G.E. Street.