Monkton Wyld Church History
The church was, with the exception of grants from the incorporated and diocesan building societies, was built at the expense of a Mrs Hudson.
The first stone was laid on St Peter’s day 1848.
Edward Denison, Bishop of Salisbury, consecrated the church and installed the first incumbent Revd Robert Sparke Hutchins on the 14 March 1850. The first incumbent’s wife was the daughter of Mrs Hudson.
The masonry consists of flint and blue lias mortar with dressing of Caen stone. It is the early decorated style with a handsome chancel, nave separated from the side aisles by arcades of three bays and central tower supported interiorly upon bold well-proportioned gothic arches.
The chancel is divided from the nave by an oak screen and has a tessellated pavement and a stained glass window added in 1856. The windows have flowing tracery and those in the chancel, and at the west end, are filled with stained glass. The entrance is on the south side with a wooden porch in oak before the door. The pulpit is made from carved oak on a base of Mansfield stone and Devon marble.