Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a Grade I listed building located in Limpsfield, with its origins dating back to the 12th century for the tower. The church features a 16th-century porch and has undergone extensive restoration in the 19th century. It is constructed from ironstone rubble with stone dressings, and the north aisle is made of dressed stone. The nave has a Horsham slab roof, while the north aisle has a plain tiled roof. A wooden shingled spire topped with a wooden cross completes the structure. The church has an aisled nave with a gabled south porch, a southeast tower, and a chancel that includes a chapel and vestry to the north. The west end has two gables and is buttressed. The south aisle windows date from the 15th century, while the north aisle windows were added in 1852. The tower features windows with two-light plate tracery from around 1260. The north door is planked and has a shallow pent roof porch hood, while the south corner doors were added in the 19th century and feature strapwork hinges.

Inside, the church has a tiled floor and whitewashed three-bay nave arcades supported by round piers, which are lower than the north aisle. The arches are slightly chamfered, and the chancel arch is corbelled, dying into imposts. The chancel roof is panelled, with arched bracing in the north aisle roof. There is a two-bay arcade leading to the north chancel chapel.

Notable fittings include an arched piscina on the south chancel wall and a square font supported by angle columns with a central moulded shaft on a moulded plinth.

The church also contains several monuments: on the south aisle wall, there are wall monuments to the Bisco family from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, featuring black grounds and white inscription panels. Above the south door is a wall monument to the Teulon family from the early 19th century, which has a black ground and a white inscription panel, although the apron is broken off. On the south wall at the west end is a monument to Marmaduke Hilton, who died in 1768, made of grey veined marble with a central arched white inscription panel and gadrooning across the base on scroll brackets, topped with a cartouche in the apron and an open pediment above on scroll brackets with a crowning fluted urn. The west wall features an 18th-century drapery monument stone with a winged skull in the apron. In the southwest corner is a chest monument to John 13th Lord Elphinstone, who died in 1860, created by Matthew Noble. This monument is made of grey stone with a panelled plinth decorated with quatrefoils and features a white marble reclining effigy above.