[1] It is known for the number of prominent musicians buried in the graveyard, including the composer Frederick Delius and orchestra conductor Sir Thomas Beecham.

[2] Constructed of ironstone rubble with stone dressings, it features a nave and two aisles, a chancel with chapel and vestry,[1] and the tower with a peel of six bells.

[1] To commemorate the notable musicians associated with the church, St Peter's commissioned the last stained glass window produced by John David Hayward, who lived for many years in nearby Edenbridge, Kent.

Although an atheist, his alternative wish was to be buried "in some country churchyard in the south of England, where people could place wild flowers", and his wife chose the Church of St Peter, Limpsfield.

[7] More recently, the ashes of Jack Brymer (1915 - 2003), a leading English clarinettist are interred in the churchyard near the grave of Beecham, who had recruited him to the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.