Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is an Anglican parish church located on Gloucester Road North in Filton. It dates back to around 1340 but was mainly rebuilt in 1845 by Hicks, with further extensions and alterations made in 1961 by Taylor and Dickin. The church is constructed of rubble, with the tower brought to courses, and features snecked stonework, freestone dressings, and roofs made of slate and copper. The raised coped verges are topped with saddlestones, while the northern extension includes random rubble and concrete dressings.

The church comprises a west tower, nave, chancel (now serving as a Lady Chapel), south aisle, and porch, with the northern extension containing a new nave and chancel. The west tower, which is the only part of the original medieval structure remaining, has been strengthened and altered in 1961. It consists of two stages: the first stage features a plain entrance added in 1961 beneath a three-light Decorated west window, while the second stage has two single cusped lights on each face, with larger louvred openings leading to the bell chamber. Gargoyles support the thin remnants of the parapet, topped with a copper-clad hexagonal spike from 1961.

The windows of the main body of the church, dating from 1845, are predominantly Decorated in style. The gabled nave is no longer visible, but the gabled chancel features weathered diagonal buttresses and a three-light east window with a drip and head stops, along with a pair of cusped lights on the north and south sides and a blocked priest's door. The gabled south aisle has three narrow bays, buttressed similarly to the chancel, and includes two-light windows, with those at the east and west under drips. The gabled south porch has a chamfered pointed arch. A five-bay 20th-century nave and chancel were added as a northern wing, featuring pointed windows with mullions and transoms, and a low pitch roof behind a parapet.

Inside, the roofs of the nave and chancel from 1845 are arch-braced and rest on large, well-carved figurative corbels.