Church of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is an Anglican parish church located in Cheverell Parva, originally built in the 13th and 14th centuries, with later alterations made in 1850 by Thomas Cundy. The church features a tower constructed of limestone ashlar, while the remainder of the structure is made from greensand rubble with limestone dressings, all topped with stone slate roofs.

The layout includes a nave with a north porch and a chancel that has a lean-to north vestry. The 13th-century tower is squat and positioned at the west end, supported by angle buttresses and featuring a west door. Above the door is a three-light window from the 14th century, along with a trefoil-headed light and small rectangular openings in the bell chamber with monolithic jambs. The tower is capped with a pyramidal roof that has a wind vane and a clock on the north face. The nave contains a two-light window with foiled heads and a three-light east window adorned with intersecting tracery and a hoodmould with uncarved terminals. The south side has buttresses, and the gabled north porch is topped with a terminal cross, featuring an inner door that is chamfered.

Inside, the nave boasts an open roof with four bays supported by arch-braced collar trusses resting on wall corbels. The tower arch is tall and unmoulded, while the chancel arch is chamfered and consists of two orders that die into responds. The chancel floor is flagged, and there is a reset 14th-century trefoil-headed doorway leading to the vestry, which includes a small fireplace. The south chancel window has been lowered to serve as a seat, and the east window is by Mayer of Munich.

Fittings within the church include a 15th-century octagonal font with quatrefoiled panels, a plain part-octagonal pulpit from the 19th century with raised candleholders at the reading desk, and a small gadrooned oak relief of the Last Supper as a reredos, which dates from the 18th century or later. The sanctuary rail is supported by iron, and the mid-19th-century pews are present. There is also a small upright organ in a gothic case, likely from the early 19th century.

In the chancel, there is a white marble wall tablet commemorating Rev William Richards, who died in 1823, along with his wife. Under the tower, two 18th-century wall monuments can be found: one features a waisted shield with a carved surround dedicated to Edward Alexander, who died in 1740 and his family, while the other is an elongated oval limestone tablet with a painted and gilded surround, carved with laced curtaining and topped with a garlanded urn, dedicated to Mary Alexander, who died in 1790, along with other family members.