Church Of St Peter

The Church of St Peter is a parish church located in Williton. Originally a medieval chapel, it underwent significant rebuilding, with early 16th century windows reset in the south aisle added in 1810. The main structure was rebuilt between 1856 and 1859, with a bell-cote added in 1896. The mid-19th century work was carried out by C E Giles. The church is constructed from squared red sandstone rubble, with uncoursed stonework, quoins, Bath stone dressings, and slate roofs featuring coped verges.

The church has a west porch and a bell-cote at the west end, a four-bay nave, a north aisle, a northeast vestry, a south aisle, a southeast chapel, and a chancel. The stone gabled bell-cote is situated at the center of three gables on the west end, with a central stepped buttress flanked by lancets above a single-storey gabled porch that includes kneelers, a chamfered plinth, a pointed arch inner doorway, a ribbed door, and medieval ironwork. The left side features a 19th century two-light window, while the right has a two-light cinquefoil-headed hollow chamfered mullioned window under a square hood mould. There are three similar windows on the south front, along with 19th century arched windows in the chapel and another 16th century mullioned window on the south side of the chancel. The east window is a three-light design, and there is a fisheye window in the gable end of the vestry, with a three-light shouldered mullioned window below it. The north front includes a cinquefoil-headed door and a two-light window to the vestry, with a large stepped buttress at the junction with the aisle linked to a similar buttress at the west end by a projecting plinth that forms a seat. There are two two-light windows to the left and one to the right of the gabled north porch, which is supported on deep curved brackets with a larger ovolo moulded plinth, all featuring chamfered corners. The entrance includes a double gate and a pointed arched plank inner door.

Inside, the church is rendered, with mid-19th century roofs that feature arch-braced nave, scissor truss aisles, and a barrel vaulted chancel. The chancel arch has decorative capitals, and there are circular piers without bases in the south aisle, with other piers dating from the 19th century. Notable interior features include an alabaster font dated 1666, a lectern, three bays of cinquefoil-headed tracery that may have come from the rood screen removed in 1856, a poor box dated 1680, an early 17th century chest, and an altar table in the south aisle that is probably from the 17th century. This church served as a chapel of ease and did not become a parish church until the 18th century.