St Peter’s Church
St Peter’s Church is a listed building (entry no. 1092390) that dates back to the late 1100’s, I’m not going to go into detail as there is already plenty written about the building. Below are links to some useful web pages about the Church.
- St Peter’s Church (St Mary Bourne Village Website)
- St Peter’s Church (Great English Churches Website)
Tithe
The Church is Plot 1 on the tithe map1 and highlighted yellow on the extract below.
The transcript below tells us the land of the Church & Churchyard was 0 acres, 2 roods & 34 perches (40 perches = 1 rood & 4 roods = 1 acre)
Images
Below are some images of the church inside & out that I have collected over the years.
The first collection of images from outside and inside the church are the earliest ones I have and are those published in Stevens book in 1888.
St Peter’s Church from Steven’s Parochial History of St Mary Bourne 
Interior of St Peter’s Church from Steven’s Parochial History of St Mary Bourne 
The Font – St Peter’s Church from Steven’s Parochial History of St Mary Bourne 
The Crossed Leg Effigy – St Peter’s Church from Steven’s Parochial History of St Mary Bourne 
Chained Bible Table – St Peter’s Church from Steven’s Parochial History of St Mary Bourne
The second collection is some exterior shots taken by my Dad Tony Bevis on 1st August 2008.
The third collection is some interior shots again taken by my Dad
The fourth collection is two postcards & one photograph from my own collection.
Guidebooks
I have also collected a number of church guides over the years, I have scanned them and made them into PDFs that can be viewed and downloaded from the links below.
Undated Guide to St Peter’s Church (aft 1949)
1982 Guide to St Peter’s Church
1995 Guide to St Peter’s Church
1999 Guide to St Peter’s Church
- Tithe Apportionments, 1836-1929 [database online]. TheGenealogist.co.uk 2024 Original data: “IR29 Tithe Commission and successors: Tithe Apportionments” The National Archives ↩︎