Church Of St Peter And St Paul

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is an Anglican parish church located in Brympton D'Evercy. It has origins dating back to the 14th century or earlier, but was rebuilt in 1865 by Benjamin Ferrey, who incorporated some older fragments into the design. The church features ham stone that is roughly cut with squared ashlar dressings and has a plain clay tiled roof between coped gables.

The layout consists of a single bay chancel and a three-bay nave, with a south porch and a west bull turret. The chancel includes a chamfered plinth, a cill course, and an eaves course adorned with ball flower ornament, along with side buttresses. It has a three-light east window with Geometric style tracery, a label with headstops, and single plain lancets in the north and south walls. The nave features a plinth, a moulded eaves course, and buttresses at the junction with the chancel and at the west end. It has two-light windows with various types of tracery, all with headstop labels, and a three-light Geometric style window at the west end above the belfry, which is oblong with a pitched roof on a carved corbel base, featuring one arched opening to the north and south and two to the east and west.

The south porch has a low wide pointed arch supported by scalloped corbels, with a plain inner arch and a headstop label. Inside, the chancel boasts an arched scissor-braced roof, rere-arches to the windows that include shafts and moulding to the east window, a timber panelled reredos, and typical 19th-century fittings. The chancel arch consists of two orders with a single 12th-century type shaft. The nave has a king post truss roof and wide splays to the windows. Among the fittings, there is a partly old stoup by the south door and a circular tub font, possibly from the 12th century, featuring a chamfered plinth, cable mould, and a ring of incised ornament at the top, including crosses. Other fittings date from the 19th or 20th century. The church also contains several reclaimed memorials, including floor slabs from 1663 and 1771, and a small print of the single cell church that existed before the 1865 rebuilding. The first recorded rector served before 1420.