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The tall and elegant church of St Peter in Filkins, designed in French Gothic style by the Diocesan Architect G. E. Street, was built in 1855–7, of coursed rubble masonry. It comprises a nave with a north aisle, south porch, and small west bellcote, and an apsidal chancel to which a north vestry was added some years later. At its opening the church contained 244 sittings. The windows are largely of two cusped lights, with a range of tracery patterns in early 14th-century style. The four-bay arcade has chamfered orders with moulded capitals on cylindrical piers, and the chancel arch rests on corbels.

Most of the fittings, including pews, stalls, lectern, font, and pulpit, are probably original, although surviving polychromy in the apse, including a pattern of stars over the altar, is the work of the High Church vicar H. R. Cunningham (1874–82), who also added the vestry. The three east windows have stained glass of 1868 by Clayton and Bell; two other stained glass windows were inserted by Cunningham, and a memorial window was given by Sir Lawrence Weaver in 1927. About the same time Sir Stafford Cripps donated the black and white marble floor tiles in the chancel. Heating was installed in 1922, and electric lighting in 1934. The chancel, nave, and vestry were re-roofed with concrete tiles in 1961, and in 1969 the two 19th-century bells were recast as one by Mears & Stainbank. A new burial ground, given by the owner of Filkins Hall, was consecrated in 1920

Historical information about St Peter's Church is provided by 'Broadwell Parish: Filkins', in A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 17, ed. Simon Townley (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 2012), pp. 59-87. British History Online http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/oxon/vol17/pp59-87 [accessed 3 April 2023].

St Peter's Church is a Grade II listed building. For more information about the listing see CHURCH OF ST PETER, Filkins and Broughton Poggs - 1367710 | Historic England.

For more information about St Peter's Church see Broadwell Parish: Filkins | British History Online (british-history.ac.uk).