St Peter and St Paul, Checkendon
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view from the southeast
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 St Peter and St Paul, Checkendon
Location in Oxfordshire
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| Coordinates: 51°32′35″N 1°02′46″W / 51.543°N 1.046°W | |
| OS grid reference | SU 6683 |
| Location | Checkendon, Oxfordshire |
| Country | England |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| History | |
| Founded | c. 634 (reputed) |
| Founder(s) | Birinus (reputed) |
| Dedication | Saint Peter and Saint Paul |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Heritage designation | Grade I |
| Designated | 9 February 1959 |
| Architectural type | Norman |
| Administration | |
| Deanery | Henley-on-Thames |
| Archdeaconry | Oxford |
| Diocese | Oxford |
| Province | Canterbury |
| Clergy | |
| Rector | Rev. Kevin Davies |
St Peter and St Paul is the Church of England parish church of Checkendon, a village in Oxfordshire, England. Its parish is part of the Diocese of Oxford. Its earliest parts are 12th-century and it is a Grade I listed building.
The church is a Norman building. All but one of the windows were replaced later in the Middle Ages with Decorated Gothic and Perpendicular Gothic ones, and the Perpendicular Gothic west tower is also a later addition.
An active church in the Church of England, the Church of St Peter and St Paul is part of the diocese of Oxford, which is in the Province of Canterbury. It is in the archdeaconry of Oxford and the deanery of Henley-on-Thames. It forms a benefice with the churches at Ipsden, North Stoke, Stoke Row, Whitchurch and Woodcote.
The foundation of the church at Checkendon has been strongly associated with Saint Birinus who landed on the south coast in 634 and made his way to Dorchester-on-Thames where he converted Cynegils, the Saxon King of Wessex. There was probably a wattle and daub church on the same site soon after.
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