Church Of St Peter

EAST KNOYLE HIGHER PERTWOOD ST 83 NE (west side) 5/17 Church of St Peter 6.1.66 GV II Anglican parish church, now closed. C13, restored 1812, rebuilt 1872. Flint rubble stone with limestone dressings, tiled with fishscale tile bands and coped verges. Nave and chancel under one roof, north aisle, south porch, west bellcote. Gabled south porch, partly timber-framed, nave and chancel to right have three 2-light pointed windows with cusped lights, buttresses with offsets. East end has 2-light C19 window in geometric style, set back buttresses, coped verge with cross finial. North side of chancel and north aisle of 1872 completely ivy-covered at time of survey (August 1986) and no details visible. West end has gabled bellcote. Interior not accessible at time of survey; photographs in NMR. C19 roof trusses to 2-bay chancel and 2-bay nave, continuously chamfered chancel arch, 2-bay C13-style north arcade. Some fittings removed, but said to retain pews and wall tablets to Sheldon family, floor tablets to Mervyn family. C14 piscina with moulded pointed arch with hoodmould with mask terminal to right. Chapel probably here from C12, annexed as a chapel of ease to Chicklade in 1899. In very poor condition at time of survey; part of roof fallen in. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975; VCH, Wiltshire, Vol 8, 1965; NMR photographic collection)

Listing NGR: ST8887735811