Wallingford - Church of St Peter

St Peter's Church, (Historic Churches Trust) with Sir Robert Taylor's slender openwork spire and octagonal belfry of 1777, dominates the view charmingly when entering the town over the Thames.

The rest of the church had been rebuilt in 1763-69, after its predecessors destruction in the Civil War. Chancel and apse were added in 1904. Inside, the nave has a cofferd ceiling and in the floor of the tomb of Sir William Blackstone, (d1780), author of the renowned legal ‘Commentaries’.

Grade II* listed building