St Peter, Burnham
St Peter, Burnham
St Peter’s is the Grade II* parish church of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, a large medieval church in the Chiltern Hundreds, in the Diocese of Oxford.
- Location
- Burnham, Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Buckinghamshire
- City / town
- Burnham
- Address
- Church Street, Burnham, Buckinghamshire, SL1 7HX
- Postcode
- SL1 7HX
- Built
- C13, lengthened C14; north porch C15; tower top and spire 1864
- Consecrated
- 1202 (medieval consecration recorded by the parish)
- Architect
- G. E. Street (south porch)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter
- Diocese
- Oxford
- Parish
- Burnham
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Early English and Decorated
- Materials
- Flint with stone dressings; oak-shingled spire
- Grid reference
- SU 931 824
- Opening hours
- Monday to Friday from 9.30am until 12pm (access via Cornerstone).
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access throughout. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England describes a thirteenth-century parish church lengthened in the fourteenth century, with a fifteenth-century north porch; the top of the tower and the spire date from 1864, and the south porch is by G. E. Street. The church was listed Grade II* on 23 September 1955 (list entry 1124528). Buckinghamshire’s Historic Environment Record notes a twelfth- or thirteenth-century cruciform start, a south-east tower, and later north and south aisles.
The parish records rectors from a consecration in 1202. Burnham appears in Domesday Book. Nineteenth-century restorations heightened the tower, added a shingled spire, and in 1897 increased the bells to eight for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. The Victorian vestry was demolished in 1986 for the Cornerstone rooms.
The legal parish is Burnham.