1664 |
St Peter's House built for resident priest in Fleshmonger Street (now St Peter Street). A room in this house served as the chapel for the Catholics in Winchester and district.
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1740 |
Makeshift chapel erected behind priest's house by Father James Shaw.
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1792 |
Gothic Church erected by Dr. Milner, who in 1803 was consecrated a Bishop in this church.
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1792 |
Refugee French priests came to Winchester, 165 of them accommodated in King's House (now the Barracks). See memorial tablet in the north porch of present parish church.
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1794 |
Poor Clares set up girls' boarding school at Abbey House; left Winchester in 1808.
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1795 |
Refugee Benedictine Nuns from Brussels came to Winchester and established a boarding and day school for girls in house (now Royal Hotel), in St Peter Street. The nuns brought some of the girls with them from Belgium including a girl paid for by her reputed father, the Duke of Wellington. They left the parish in 1857.
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1800 |
St James' Cemetery purchased from St Cross Hospital. This cemetery dates from the 7th century, had became disused and in penal days became burial ground for Catholic recusants.
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1853 |
Stables of White House, St Peter Street , converted into school for boys (later for boys and girls) by Father Ignatius Collingridge.
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1899 |
School for boys and girls erected at Gordon Road by Canon Gunning.
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1915 |
Canon Gunning acquired land and house, 29 Jewry Street .
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1926 |
Church erected on Jewry Street site by Canon John Henry King, who was consecrated Bishop in this church in 1938. He died on 23rd March 1965 (then Archbishop King) and is buried at St James Cemetry in Winchester.
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1954 |
Old church converted into parish hall and named Milner Hall.
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1956 |
Modernisation and extensions to St Peter's School.
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1957 |
Chapel of St Thomas More erected at Weeke.
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1960 |
Bon Secours Sisters came to Crawley Court (in succession to the Carmelite nuns who had resided there for three previous years) and established nursing home. Closed in 1969.
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1960 |
The Sisters of the Congregation of the Religious Teachers Filippini came to Winchester and opened nursery school in the White House.
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1965 |
Site acquired for new church and school in Stanmore-Oliver's Battery area.
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| 1966 |
Archbishop Delegate, Archbishop Cardinal, dedicated Martyrs windows in Lady Chapel as memorial to Archbishop King
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1968 |
Church of St. Stephen built by Canon Mullarkey in Oliver's Battery Road .
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1968 |
Building of St. Stephen 's Primary School commenced at Oliver's Battery.
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1970 |
St Stephen's School partially completed - opened as annexe to St Peter's School.
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1975 |
Extension to St Thomas More's Chapel, Weeke, and erection of Priest's house.
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1981 |
Organ of St Peter's Church re-built and enlarged by Canon Llewhellin.
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| 1985 |
School Infant Dept. left Gordon Road for Oliver's Battery .
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1986 |
Consecration of new altar in re-ordered sanctuary at St Peter's. Project, under Canon France , also included creation of a parish centre, new presbytery and extensive landscaping.
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1987 |
Restoration of the Milner Hall.
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1988 |
Major renovations to the structure of the White House, St Peter's Convent.
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1989 |
Commencement of the building of the new St Peter's Primary School in Oliver's Battery.
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1990 |
Opening of the Infant department and administration block at St Peter's School.
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1992 |
Bi-centenary of the Opening and Consecration of Milner's Chapel.
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1996 |
Building of Phase 11 of St Peter's School in Oliver's Battery .
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1998 |
Old Presbytery on Jewry Street , renovated and converted into flats and offices.
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1999 |
Parish Millennium Christmas Eve Mass celebrated by Bishop Crispian Hollis in Zippo's Circus Tent.
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2002 |
New Link between St. Stephen's Church and St. Peter's School built.
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2002 |
New Millennium Narthex opened in St. Peter's Church.
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| 2003 |
150th Anniversary of St Peter's Primary School. |
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2005 |
Monsignor Peter Doyle, Parish Priest concecrated Bishop of Northampton |
