St Peter in the Wood, Appleshaw
St Peter in the Wood, Appleshaw
St Peter in the Wood is a Grade II parish church in Appleshaw, Hampshire, rebuilt in 1836 on the site of a thirteenth-century chapel. It stands in the benefice of Appleshaw, Kimpton, Thruxton, Fyfield and Shipton Bellinger in the Diocese of Winchester.
- Location
- Appleshaw, Hampshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Hampshire
- City / town
- Appleshaw
- Address
- St Peter in the Wood, Appleshaw, Hampshire, SP11 9BH
- Postcode
- SP11 9BH
- Built
- 1836, on the site of a 13th-century chapel
- Architect
- T M Shurmer
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Peter
- Diocese
- Winchester
- Parish
- Appleshaw
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Plain Gothic
- Materials
- Rendered walls and slate roof
- Opening hours
- Covid19 : Appleshaw church is currently open for prayer and quiet contemplation on Sundays 9am to 12pm and Wednesdays 1pm to 5pm. [Normally : Open daily throughout the year.]
- Access
- Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England lists a plain Gothic cruciform aisleless church by T. M. Shurmer, built with a grant from the Incorporated Society for Promoting the Enlargement, Building and Repairing of Churches. The listing date of the rebuild is 1830; the parish and village sources give 1836, matching the Victoria County History. Walls are rendered, the roof slated. Most of the western arm, with thicker walls, is raised as a tower with parapet, diagonal buttresses and slender pyramid finials; there is a west porch. Pointed coupled windows light the gables, chancel and tower. The interior reads as a long narrow nave and chancel broken by segmental-pointed transept arches, with a flat segmental plaster vault and a west gallery inside the tower.
The Victoria County History notes wall monuments of 1785, 1807 and 1835 and a Royal Arms of William IV dated 1831. A Victorian octagonal font stands in the church; the porch holds what appears to be an earlier font. Appleshaw became an ecclesiastical parish in 1866.