Oxford St Peter in the East

"St. Peter's-in-the-East is a perpetual curacy, valued at £13. 2. 1.; net income, £147; patrons and impropriators, the Warden and Fellows of Merton College. The church is said to have been originally built in the ninth century; the prevailing character of the present building is Norman, and the details are rich and elaborately wrought. It has undergone many alterations and repairs, and received several additions in the later English style, which have materially altered its external appearance; the roof in the name and north aisle having been restored, and a new organ erected, the church was reopened in December, 1844. At the west end of the north aisle is a square tower, which has vestiges of great antiquity. Underneath the chancel is a fine Norman crypt, the roof of which is vaulted, and supported on four ranges of massive pillars; several of teh windows of the church have remains of painted glass, and there are many ancient monuments. Hearne, the antiquary, was interred in the churchyard; and in the church is a brass plate with an inscription to his memory, placed there in 1833, by the late Sir R.C. Hoare, the original inscription in the burial-ground having become obliterated." [Samuel Lewis. A Topographical Dictionary of England (1848)]