St Peter

early C14 transept.

C12 round arched north doorway with 2 orders of roll moulding and billetted hoodmould has tympanum with incised diaper pattern

Two windows to nave on north and south sides: one on each being original C12 with deep splays internally

others are 2-light C19 neo-Norman, that on south wall replacing a much larger window of some earlier date.

SP2003 : Southrop, St. Peter's Church: Voluted right capital, the Norman North Doorway

© Michael Garlick

Early C14 transept has ogee tracery to south single-light

Continuous sill-level string course to C13 chancel with 2 east lancets having small quatrefoil centrally above.

Interior: plain and limewashed, the pure Norman line of nave being interrupted by large round transept arch.

Plain C12 round chancel arch with carved imposts

Chancel is well articulated by C13 splays to lancets, all with rere-arches.

GEN: DECESED ANNODMI: 1670'.

Memorial to right of chancel arch with Ionic pilasters and broken pediment to Edmond, Son of Thomas Keble, died 1654.

Late C19 stone choir screen and curved pulpit front.

C12 circular font is very important with well-preserved arcading and figures in relief.

SP2003 : St. Peter, Southrop: font

© Basher Eyre

Stained glass in upper east window by Thomas Willement, 1852.

This church is important for the extent of surviving Norman work, the font, and its link with John Keble, one of the instigators of the Oxford Movement.