page_title: St Peter's Church, Preston Village, Brighton
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: St Peter's Church, Preston Village, Brighton / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: St Peter's Church, Preston Village, City of Brighton and Hove, England. Built in the 13th century as the parish church of Preston, it lost that status to St John the Evangelist's Church in 1908. Restored in the 1870s and after a serious fire in 1906. Now redundant and owned by the Redundant Churches Fund. Listed at Grade II* by English Heritage (IoE code 481067)
context_page_description: St Peter's Church is a former Anglican church in the Preston Village area of Brighton, in the English city of Brighton and Hove. The 13th-century building, standing on the site of two older churches, was restored in the late 19th century and again after a serious fire in 1906. It was the parish church of Preston until 1908, when the newly built St John the Evangelist's Church gained this status. The Diocese of Chichester declared St Peter's redundant in 1990, and it is now owned by the Churches Conservation Trust. It has Grade II* listed status, reflecting its architectural and historical importance.
context_section_description: St Peter's Church is a flint building dressed with stone and with a roof of tiles, standing in a prominent position next to Preston Manor on higher ground than the rest of Preston Village.  Built in the Early English style, it has a series of broad lancet windows—three on each side of the nave, and also in the chancel.  Most have been restored from their original state.  The tower at the west end is narrow and relatively short; it has much narrow lancet windows and contains three bells, one of which may be 15th-century.  In its present form, the church consists of a chancel with barrel roof and chamfered arch, nave with no aisles, vestry with an elaborate chimney, and a timber-framed, hipped-roofed porch.  Ewan Christian's renovations in 1878 added a set of intricately carved choir stalls; one of the carvings represents a Native American.  There are memorial tablets and stained glass windows commemorating members of the Stanford family.  A reredos was added after the 1907 restoration.  The altar is formed from a table-tomb—the burial place of Edward Eldrington (or Elrington), the lord of the Preston Manor who died in 1515.
caption: James Woodman added a porch on the north side in 1872.
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