Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building located in Little Wittenham, dating back to the 14th century for its tower, while the rest of the church was rebuilt by Charles Buckeridge around 1863. It is constructed from uncoursed squared limestone with stone dressings and features an old plain-tile roof, along with a stone end stack to the vestry. The church comprises a three-bay nave, chancel, vestry, and west tower, designed in an Early English style.

The church has a gabled stone porch at the center of the nave, which includes a two-centred archway supported by columns with foliate caps. The nave features plate tracery windows, while the chancel has cusped plate tracery windows. The tower is positioned to the left and includes an octagonal stair turret, a two-light window with reticulated tracery on the left return, and cross-slits on the rear and left return. The top stage of the tower has two-light louvred openings of reticulated tracery and is topped with a battlemented parapet.

Inside, there is a 19th-century stained glass window by Clayton and Bell, as well as sedilia and a piscina to the right of a marble reredos. To the left, there is a recessed altar tomb from around 1483 for Geoffrey Kidwelly, featuring shields on the altar base and a brass on top, with quatrefoil carving in the recess and a cusped Tudor arch supported by buttress-shafts. The tower houses a notable collection of monuments and brasses, including an alabaster monument to Sir William Dunch and his family, which features two effigies—one recumbent and the other resting on his side with his head on his arm—flanked by obelisks. There are also significant brasses commemorating the Dunch and Winchcombe families.

The church contains 19th-century fittings, including pews and choir stalls with wrought-iron candelabra, a stone pulpit, and a font with a pinnacled wooden cover. Both the nave and chancel have scissor-braced roofs.