Ampney St Peter is a village in the Cotswolds, 4 miles E of Cirencester. The church was largely rebuilt by G.G. Scott in 1878, when 'the whole building was taken down, except for the tower', and the S wall, which was virtually rebuilt. The chancel was rebuilt on its old site, and the stairs to the rood loft preserved. The old porch was removed from S side and an entrance formed at the W end. Romanesque features include a Transitional Romanesque chancel arch. An earlier Romanesque doorway was inserted in the N nave wall. A Sheila na gig carving, of unconfirmed Romanesque or possibly Anglo-Saxon date, is mounted on the wall N of the font. The Norman doorway was stated to be 11thc work in 1881. [Gloucester Notes and Queries, 1881, 235.]
