Weston-in-Gordano is one of several small villages on the Mercia Mudstone (formerly known as Keuper Marl) strung along the secondary road at about 15m OD on the northern side of the Gordano valley between Clevedon, 3mi to the SW, and Portishead, 1.5kms to the NE. Weston may well have had a commanding rôle in medieval times, to judge by the Domesday documentation. The church of Sts. Peter and Paul, which dates from the 13thc and 15thc, is Grade I listed and consists of a S tower, nave with S porch and chancel with S chapel. The font is Romanesque.

Like much land in this part of Somerset, in 1086 Weston in Gordano belonged to the Bishop of Coutances. There were two manors, one held in 1086 from the Bishop by Azelin, Brictnoth held it before 1066; the other manor was held by William in 1086, Algar held it before 1066.

With its massive plinth and bold uncompromising design, the font is quite imposing. As Pevsner suggests, it has the shape of a Romanesque capital (like the fonts at nearby Portishead and Kingston Seymour). The whole is well balanced and proportioned. Subtly contributing to the overall composition is the way in which the curved lower part of the bowl mirrors and enlarges the curve of the top of the lower part of the base.

The fieldworker draws attention to a former altar-slab in the porch. On each stone bench on either side of the S Porch rests an altar slab (although that to the W has its face to the wall and thus cannot be definitely categorised as such). That on the E bench has remaining three roughly inscribed crosses on the right-hand side (i.e., that at the centre, together with those near the right-hand corners); the other two crosses presumably once on the left-hand side have probably been eroded away. At the date of writing (April 2009), there is no information about these slabs but one may reasonably suspect them to have been exposed to the elements and possibly buried. Apart from the rough crosses there is no sculpture and the date of the two pieces is unknown. For an image, see under general site images.