St Peter's Institute was an association football club, founded in 1877, who originally played at Battersea Park, before moving to the Spencer Arms in Putney by 1883.
[1] The club was based at the St Peter's Institute Gymnasium, with links to the local church, in Buckingham Palace Road, and the club's emblem, worn on its caps in 1885, was a pair of crossed keys.
[2] The club's first recorded match was a 1–0 defeat to St Stephen's in November 1877.
[5] As the game moved towards professionalism, St Peter's remained a gentlemen's club, and did not enter the FA Cup again.
Six of the club's players, including captain J. Wright and leading scorer H. Daville, moved to the newly founded Morton Rangers of Shepherd's Bush.