MATERIALS: Ragstone rubble, with some tile in the chancel, limestone dressings.
Late C14 N door with moulded jambs, pointed arch and hood mould with head stops.
Probably C17 timber bell-cote over W end of nave.
Two heavily renewed C13 lancets in the chancel N and S walls.
Both nave and chancel have C15 king-post roofs with octagonal king-posts.
In nave S wall, a C15 cinquefoiled piscina.
Royal Arms of George I. Floor slab in chancel to Rev. Thomas Hervey, d. 1712.
Pulpit, reredos and chancel panelling designed by the rector, Alfred Hands and made by Cushman c.1915.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES Table tomb in the churchyard to Thomas Blackmore, d. 1679 and his daughters Ann d. 1677 and Elizabeth d. 1690.
HISTORY Nevendon as a place is in the Domesday book of 1086, but if there was a church there in the late C11, it was not mentioned, although it was not uncommon for churches to be omitted.
The earliest fabric is the C13 chancel, but this was probably added to an earlier timber nave.
The chancel was extended slightly to the W, and the nave was rebuilt in the C14.
The whole building was reroofed in the C15.
The bell turret was added in the C17.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The church of St Peter, Wickford, Essex is designated at Grade II* for the following principal reasons: * Small parish church of the C13
C14, restored in the C19
C20. * Nave and chancel roofs C15. * Retains evidence for its having been extended in several phases from a timber church.