St Peter, Wallingford

St Peter’s, with Sir Robert Taylor’s slender openwork spire and octagonal belfry of 1777, dominates the view charmingly when entering Wallingford over the Thames. The rest of the church had been rebuilt in 1763-69 after its predecessor’s destruction in the Civil War. chancel and apse were added in 1904. Inside, the nave has a coffered ceiling and in the floor is the tomb of Sir William Blackstone (d. 1780), author of the renowned legal Commentaries.