St. Peter, Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

Description

The parish church of St. Peter, erected in 1714, on the site of an earlier church, which collapsed in 1708, is an edifice of red brick with stone dressings, and consists of nave and an embattled western tower containing a clock and 6 bells, dated 1726: windows have been inserted in the chancel and nave, and a south chapel and south porch added in the Decorated style: there are eight, memorial windows to the Hibbert and Wills families, to the wife of the Rev. G. M. Bullock B.D. vicar 1863-88, and others, besides five brasses from the 14th to the 16th centuries, removed from the old church, and including a palimpsest brass with the effigy of a priest in eucharistic vestments, c. 1440: in this case the figure has been slightly altered by the addition of shading and rounding of the toes. After this a new inscription was added to Sir Robert Hanson, vicar here, d. 1545. The communion plate dates from the 17th century, and is made of pewter: a new organ was provided in 1911: there are 300 sittings: the burial ground was given by J. N. Hibbert esq, D.L., J.P.; it contains a memorial, erected at a cost of £400, to parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-18.

Church Records

The parish registers date from the year 1538