The following text is from the original listed building designation:
SOUTHBOROUGH THE COMMON (north west side) 2/28 Church of St Peter 27-10-50 - II
Originally small-scale brick structure seating 500 built in 1830 by Decimus Burton for John Deacon for whom Burton was extending Mabledon Park. Yellow- brick and sandstone. Extended 1883 by Ewan Christian, who added the unusual west-work of town and spire flanked by 2-storey projections, (porches and stair- cases). Clerestoried chancel, buttresses and geometrical tracery inserted into Burton's wide lancets, also of this date. 5 bay nave. 2 pairs of quatrefoil windows in each side of chancel clerestorey. West gallery. See Philip Miller, Decimus Burton, 1800-81,Exhib Cat, Building Centre, London, 1981,29.
Listing NGR: TQ5755142784

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.