Edward Hutton, in his book Highways And Byways In Wiltshire, written before the outbreak of the First World War, first published in 1917, reprinted 1919, noted:
“. . . at Upton Lovell . . . we have a church in the main of the seventeenth century, and very charming it is, most lovingly and carefully restored – a consolation and a delight. It is a simple village church dedicated in honour of St. Peter, and its chancel is in the main of the very early thirteenth century, with a fifteenth century window in the south wall. But the nave with the north porch and the vestry date wholly from 1633, as does the beautiful oak roof. The thirteenth century font has been replaced here in the nave from the rectory garden, where for long it was used as a flower vase; and in the floor of the chancel is a small brass representing a priest in Mass vestments of the middle of the fifteenth century. The altar tomb with an effigy in full armour probably holds the dust of one of the Lovells of Castle Cary who held the manor here, and from which Upton Lovell gets its name.”