St Peter’s Church was built because around the year 1100, parishioners petitioned the Bishop of Winchester to provide a church south of the downs. The reason for their piety was that otherwise the occasion of a death in the village might cause several other residents to breathe their last as they made their way on foot all the way to Carisbrooke and back for the funeral!
The church assumed its present configuration by 1567, when a tower was added by Sir John Leigh, the builder of nearby Northcourt.
The congregation of this delightful village church is made up both from those who have moved into the village and those whose families have lived here for generations.
We are again engaged in major renovations to our church, which is counted among the finest thousand churches in the country, with help from English Heritage, the Historic Churches Preservation Trust and the Council for the Care of Churches, together with funds raised locally.
