St Peter

Lean-to rubble N aisle with Perpendicular C15 W window

Rubble and flint C14 S chapel with pitched tiled roof parallel with the nave

E elevation: large three-light E window to S chapel of C14

Larger late C19 five-light window to chancel within earlier C15 Perpendicular surround

N elevation: three C15 Perpendicular N windows to chancel

Interior: High quality C12 Norman W nave doorway of three orders: shafted jambs with capitals crisply carved with foliate and zoomorphic forms

Nave retains its Saxon proportions but little of its fabric other than its W end given the addition of N and S aisles

Saxon window arch high in the W tower

N aisle arcade of C15 with slender shafts made up of four columns

Original Saxon chancel replaced and remodelled although some early fabric survives either side of the simple chancel arch

Present chancel C13 although the arch reuses C12 responds

Further arcade between the chancel and S chapel is early C14 with grotesque winged figures and foliage to the capitals

Adjoining S door, known as the Priest's Door, of C13 date

Two sedilias with piscinas: one of C13 in the chancel S wall although heavily restored

the other C14 with ogee-heads in the S chapel S wall

Chancel remodelled in the C15 Perpendicular style although a later phase of work than the N aisle Perpendicular

Encaustic floor tiles date to the Victorian restoration, 1866-7. Principal Fixtures: S Chapel: Wriothesley Monument: impressive memorial in marble and alabaster to the first Earl and Countess of Southampton and also the Second Earl, specified in the will of the latter

Rectangular two-tiered monument with obelisks at the corners

Other smaller kneeling family members and heraldic beasts adorn the monument

S wall monument to Lady Mary Wriothesley who died 1615 aged 4, unusually depicted with child-like features

N wall handsome marble memorial to members of the Hornby Family with an accomplished figure of a dead youth by Sir Francis Chantrey (signed),1836

Pews, chancel stalls, and encaustic floor tiles all of 1866-7 restoration

Stained glass also largely Victorian, by Clayton and Bell other than the three Chancel N windows which are by Weiles

Chancel arch screen, 1916 by Norman Atkins

Handsome carved octagonal stone font by Charles Upton, a pupil of Eric Gill, 1951, carved alternately with figurative and symbolic scenes: a memorial to the troops who passed through Titchfield in 1944 to take part in the D-day invasion of Normandy

History: St Peter's Church is Anglo-Saxon in origin and the surviving Saxon fabric is the oldest Saxon work in Hampshire

The base of the tower and elements of the nave at either end are of Saxon date

It is difficult to date precisely but the Roman tile banding and megalithic quoins would suggest early rather than late Saxon, and the existence of a W porch leading to an aisle-less nave can also be seen at the late C7 Monkwearmouth Church in Co Durham

The steep pitch of the Saxon roof-line is still discernable immediately adjoining the tower to its N and S. The west nave door is C12 when the S aisle was also added

The chancel was rebuilt in the C13 when the Saxon porch was also heightened to a tower, although the spire is later, probably C15

The S chapel is a C14 addition but is known as the Southampton Chapel following the Dissolution as it became the mausoleum of the Earls of Southampton

particular aspects of note include the crisp C12 carving of the nave W door, the S chancel arcade of early C14 and the elegant Perpendicular C15 N aisle

* Fixtures and Fittings: for its high quality fixture and fittings, particularly the outstanding monument of the 1590s to the Earls of Southampton