Church Of St Peter

LITTLE WITTENHAM MAIN STREET SU5693 (West side) 10/59 Church of St. Peter 14/06/63

GV II*

Church. C14 tower, rest of church rebuilt by Charles Buckeridge c.1863. Uncoursed squared limestone with stone dressings, old plain-tile roof; stone end stack to vestry. 3-bay nave, chancel, vestry and west tower. Early English style. Gabled stone porch to centre of nave with 2-centred archway on foliate-capped columns. 2-centre arched doorway with plank door. Plate tracery windows to nave, cusped plate tracery windows to chancel. Tower to left with octagonal stair turret, 2-light window of reticulated tracery to left return, cross-slits to rear and left return. 2-light louvred openings of reticulated tracery to top stage. Battlemented parapet. Interior: C19 stained glass window by Clayton and Bell. Sedilia and piscina to right of marble reredos. Recessed altar tomb of c.1483 to Geoffrey Kidwelly to left with shields to panels of altar base and brass to top; quatrefoil carving to recess with cusped tudor arch and buttress-shafts. Good collection of monuments and brasses to tower: alabaster monument to Sir William Dunch and family, of 2 effigies, she recumbent, he on his side with his head on his arm, obelisks to each end. Good brasses to Dunch and Winchcombe families. C19 fittings including pews and choir stalls with wrought-iron candelabra, stone pulpit, and font with pinnacled wood cover. Scissor-braced roofs to both nave and chancel. (V.C.H.: Berkshire, Vol IV, 1924, p.383-4; Buildings of England: Berkshire, 1975, p.169).

Listing NGR: SU5663893449