St. Peter's Episcopal Church, Oxford, Lafayette County was completed in 1859, although the parish dates back to May of 1851 when it was organized. One of the outstanding men of St. Peter's was Dr. F. A. P. Barnard (1809–1889), who was a professor at the University of Mississippi and took an active part in the work of the Episcopal church in Oxford. Dr. Barnard delivered the first sermon in the new church on Easter day, April 8, 1860. On the second Sunday after Trinity, June 18, 1871, Bishop Mercer Green consecrated St. Peter's. Among the outstanding laymen in St. Peter's congregation were Jacob Thompson, who in 1871 donated the cemetery lot; Colonel Peyton H. Skipwith, who "was one of the pioneers of the Episcopal Church in Tennessee" and one of the nine organizers of the Episcopal Church in Mississippi; and Charles H. Keys, who was senior warden of St. Peter's for fourteen years.

Among the materials filmed is a scrapbook compiled by Dr. and Mrs. Edward McCrady. The scrapbook contains letters, pictures of the church, accounts by Mrs. Rebecca A. Pegues and others taken from various private records and from the parish journal. Dr. McCrady was distinguished not only as a minister but also as an instructor of philosophy at the University of Mississippi. Also included is a record book of St. Peter's cemetery, 1882–1892. In addition, there is a group of miscellaneous material including:

1. circulars from the Church Building Commission to the congregation (1882)
2. a program for the Easter festival of 1883
3. miscellaneous correspondence dating from 1858 to 1884
4. miscellaneous receipts and invoices, October 1858–May 1887