Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Wyre local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 April 1967. Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
mired-sill-violet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wyre
Constituency
Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 April 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Peter, B 5269, Inskip-With-Sowerby
OS grid reference
SD 463 379
Coordinates
53.83486, -2.81743
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter, built in 1848 by J.E. Gregan, features a chancel and tower added in 1925 by Austin and Paley. The original structure is made of squared rock-faced limestone with sandstone dressings and a slate roof, while the additions are primarily in sandstone. The church consists of a nave, a lower chancel, a south porch, and a north transept with a tower to the west.

The west wall has two bays, buttresses with offsets, and lancet windows with angle shafts. Above, there is a wheel window with shafts resembling spokes and a bellcote that has a trefoiled opening and a cross finial. The south-western buttress contains a flue that ends in a louvre with gablets and lancet openings. The south nave wall features four bays to the east of the porch with chamfered lancets separated by buttresses, and to the west of the porch is a double lancet window. The north side has five nave bays.

The tower is three stages high with diagonal buttresses and a broached spire. The bell openings consist of two trefoiled lights under a pointed head with a trefoil. The spire has gablets on all four sides with lancet openings. The three south chancel windows are similar to the bell openings, while the east window has three stepped lancets with angle shafts.

Inside, the nave has five roof trusses supported by corbels, featuring arch-braced collars and short king posts. The chancel has a barrel roof with one king-post truss and a raised tie beam. The chancel arch is chamfered in two orders, with moulded imposts and semi-octagonal responds. The east window includes moulded pointed inner arches and attached shafts.

Local climate

Church of St Peter sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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