St Peter, Clyffe Pypard
St Peter, Clyffe Pypard
St Peter’s on Wood Street, Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire, is a Grade I parish church with a fifteenth-century nave and tower, restored by William Butterfield in 1860 and 1873–74, in the Diocese of Salisbury.
- Location
- Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Wiltshire
- City / town
- Clyffe Pypard
- Address
- Wood Street, Clyffe Pypard, Wiltshire, SN4 7PY
- Postcode
- SN4 7PY
- Built
- C15 nave and tower; chancel and aisles rebuilt 1860; further restoration 1873–74
- Architect
- William Butterfield (1860 and 1873–74)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter
- Diocese
- Salisbury
- Parish
- Clyffe Pypard
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Perpendicular nave and tower; Victorian chancel and aisles
- Materials
- Limestone ashlar and coursed rubble; stone slates (chancel later concrete slates)
- Opening hours
- Open Easter to October; otherwise key nearby.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas
Overview
There has been a church here since the thirteenth century. Historic England and local histories record a tall fifteenth-century nave of five bays, narrow aisles and a three-stage west tower in limestone ashlar and rubble, with a fifteenth-century nave roof of knee-braced collars and brattished cornice. Butterfield rebuilt the chancel and aisles in 1860 and oversaw further Goddard-family restoration in 1873–74, including chancel fittings. The hexagonal pulpit is dated 1629. Nikolaus Pevsner described the setting as ‘a lovely position below a wooded stretch of the cliff’; he and his wife Lola are buried in the churchyard. Listed on 17 January 1955 (NHLE 1022655). The benefice is now part of Woodhill with Broad Town, Hilmarton and Tockenham.