Church of St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury

St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury
Church of St Peter and St Paul
St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury Location in Wiltshire
Coordinates: 51°10′56″N 2°06′31″W / 51.1823°N 2.1086°W / 51.1823; -2.1086
OS grid reference	ST925426
Location	Heytesbury, Wiltshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	upperwylyevalleyteam.com/parishes/churches/st-peter-st-paul-heytesbury/
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Years built	13th century, restored 1864-7
Administration
Parish	Heytesbury with Tytherington and Knook
Deanery	Heytesbury
Archdeaconry	Sarum
Diocese	Salisbury
Province	Canterbury
Listed Building – Grade I
Reference no.	1036357

The Church of St Peter and St Paul, Heytesbury is the Church of England parish church for the parish of Heytesbury with Tytherington and Knook, Wiltshire. It was a collegiate church from the 12th century until 1840. The present building is largely 13th-century and is designated as Grade I listed.

A church was mentioned at Hestrebe in the Domesday Book of 1086. The church was given to Salisbury Cathedral by Henry I in about 1115, together with the church of Godalming, Surrey, and lands lying beside the two churches, to form a prebend. Shortly after this the church became collegiate, with the head of the college the canon who held the prebend at the Cathedral.

A charter granted by bishop Josceline (or Jocelin) between 1150 and 1160 established four canons at Heytesbury. Their income included tithes from Tytherington, where there was a chapel, and from Horningsham; the churches of Hill Deverill and Swallowcliffe; and land at Wilton. From about 1220 the prebend of Heytesbury was annexed to the deanery of Salisbury, thus the Dean of Salisbury was also Dean of Heytesbury. Most collegiate churches were abolished in 1547 as part of the Reformation but Heytesbury continued until it was suppressed, along with the other remaining non-residential deaneries, by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners Act 1840.