Church Of St Peter

SP2204-2304 FILKINS AND BROUGHTON POGGS VILLAGE STREET (North-west side) Filkins 7/193 Church of St. Peter

GV II Parish church, 1855-57, by G.E. Street. Squared and coursed limestone with C20 plain tile roof. Nave with north aisle and south porch; apsidal chancel with north vestry. In tall French Gothic style with Decorated window tracery. Nave has off-set buttresses, moulded sill string, and gabled west bellcote with cusped arch and side gablets. 3-light traceried window in west end has hood mould with carved head stops. 3 bays of traceried windows to south, the left window off 2 lights, the right windows of 3 lights. South door in moulded arch. Steeply gabled south porch with chamfered plinth and cusped arch. North aisle has end buttresses, and 4 bays of 2-light windows, all north windows with carved foliage stops to hood moulds. Gabled north vestry with chamfered plinth and buttress, arched north door, and pair of cusped lights to east. Chancel has tall 2-light south window, and polygonal east end with 3 2-light windows, variously traceried. Interior has 4-bay north arcade of double chamfered pointed arches on cylindrical stone piers with moulded capitals. Moulded chancel arch with moulded corbels. Arch-braced collar roof on carved stone foliage corbels. Piscina with moulded trefoil head. Fittings include octagonal stone font with traceried panels in C15 style, and stained glass by Clayton and Bell. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: 1974, p604)

Listing NGR: SP2372304185