St. Peter nr. St. Albans / St. Peter Rural / St. Peter Urban

No separate entry for St. Peter's found in the Domesday survey. Cox & Harvey (1907: 236) write of a holy-water stoup of the Norman period at the entrance of this church [NB: location appears in C&H as "St. Peter's, Oxon", but no St Peters found in Oxon]. The Victoria County History (Hertfordshire, vol. 2, 1908) notes: "The parish of St. Peter originally included as chapelries the present parishes of Sandridge, Ridge, Northaw, and St. Andrew, now the abbey parish of St. Albans […] The original church of St. Peter was built in the tenth century by Wulsin, sixth abbot of St. Albans. […] Geoffrey, the sixteenth abbot, (1119–46), granted it to the use of the infirmary, […] and Abbot John de Hertford instituted a vicarage there in 1252. […] The infirmarer then became rector, […] and as such was required to supply wine for the monks of the convent from the revenue he obtained from St. Peter's. He was fined 8s. for any day on which he failed in this duty […] In later times, perhaps during the thirteenth century, the church took the form which it retained till the eighteenth century, of a cruciform building with a central tower. A west doorway of thirteenth-century detail survived till 1893 (when Lord Grimthorpe destroyed it), showing that the length of the nave had probably remained unaltered for some 650 years. […] The font is at the west end of the south aisle, and is modern"; there is no mention of a stoup in the VCH entry. The entry for this church in English Heritage [Listing ID 163440] (1950) notes the following: "The font has a richly carved tapering octagonal stone bowl on an octagonal stem decorated with shafts with carved capitals. […] The inner doorway dates back to the C13 and has nook shafts with moulded capitals linked to a stoup with a stone frame with a brattished cornice."