---
title: "St Peter, Upper Slaughter"
description: "Located in Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire. Built C12–C15; Witts chapel 1854; restored 1877. Diocese of Gloucester. Grade II*. Norman and Gothic style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Gloucestershire","Upper Slaughter","Grade II*","Norman","Gothic","J E K Cutts","Francis Niblett"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-peter-upper-slaughter"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T03:00:47.656Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T15:59:26.995Z"
location: "Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire"
country: "England"
county: "Gloucestershire"
town: "Upper Slaughter"
address: "The Square, Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, GL54 2JE"
postcode: "GL54 2JE"
built: "C12–C15; Witts chapel 1854; restored 1877"
architect: "Francis Niblett (Witts Mortuary Chapel 1854); J E K Cutts (restoration 1877)"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Peter"]
diocese: "Gloucester"
grade: "II*"
style: "Norman and Gothic"
materials: "Rubble, partly coursed, with Cotswold stone roofs"
openingHours: "The church is open everyday."
parish: "Upper Slaughter with Eyford"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1237720"
gridReference: "SP 154 232"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby"
---

# St Peter, Upper Slaughter

St Peter’s is a Grade II* parish church on The Square in Upper Slaughter, Gloucestershire, in the Diocese of Gloucester.

## Overview

Historic England records a parish church with twelfth-century fabric, a thirteenth- or early fourteenth-century chancel, a fourteenth-century tower (upper part fifteenth-century), alterations of 1822, the Witts Mortuary Chapel of 1854 by Francis Niblett, and a careful restoration of 1877 by J. E. K. Cutts. The fabric is rubble, partly coursed, under Cotswold stone roofs. The plan has a four-bay twelfth-century nave with north aisle, a tower inserted into the west bay in the fourteenth century, a south porch with an assembly of carved twelfth-century fragments, a three-bay chancel and the north Witts chapel. A fifteenth-century sanctus turret survives.

The tower re-uses Norman orders, vault and corbels, probably from an earlier tower one bay further west. Niblett’s north-east chapel, a mortuary chapel for the Rev. F. E. Witts, is in a wayward Decorated manner. Cutts’s 1877 work re-Gothicized the Rev. Witts’s Georgian preaching-box of 1822. The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture notes that Upper Slaughter is a Doubly Thankful Village.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1237720](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1237720)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St Peter, Upper Slaughter](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101237720-church-of-st-peter-upper-slaughter)
- [CRSBI: St Peter, Upper Slaughter](https://www.crsbi.ac.uk/view-item?i=8080)