St Peter's is a Grade I listed building and remains an active parish church.

[1] A memorial engraving in St Peter's records "John de Cobham died in the ground here.

The Goddard family owned the manor, and the living of St Peter's, for the next four hundred years.

[4] The restoration was funded by the rector Horatio Nelson Goddard, of the manor house at Clyffe Pypard, at a cost of £700.

[7] Settling eventually in London, they were frequent visitors to Wiltshire, staying in a cottage, Snowhill, near Clyffe Pypard, which belonged to a friend and colleague, Geoffrey Grigson.

[a][8] In 1951 Pevsner published the first volumes of his magnum opus, The Buildings of England, an enterprise that took nearly 25 years to complete.