Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building in the Rutland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1961. A C13 Church.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- ragged-hearth-moss
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Rutland
- Constituency
- Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 June 1961
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Main Street, Great Casterton
- OS grid reference
- TF 001 087
- Coordinates
- 52.66766, -0.52069
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building located in Great Casterton. It dates back to the 13th century, with a 14th-century tower and later clerestory, and has undergone restoration. The church is constructed of coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Although the low-pitched roofs are not visible, the coping of an earlier roof can still be seen on the east face of the tower.
The structure includes a nave with aisles, a chancel, a west tower, and a south porch, all featuring embattled designs. A 20th-century vestry is located to the west of the porch. The tower is characterized by angle buttresses, two-light Decorated bell-openings, a weathervane, corner pinnacles, and a northeast stair turret. The chancel windows consist of lancets and triple lancets with hood-moulds, while the east end has two recessed lancets flanked by shafts with stiff-leaf capitals and a niche containing a statue of St Peter above. The aisle windows are composed of three lights with intersecting tracery, and the clerestory features encircled trefoils.
The north aisle has a blocked doorway, and the south aisle contains both exterior and interior tomb recesses. The exterior recess holds a coffin lid with a figure carved in high relief, while the interior recess features an effigy of a priest. The south porch has a sundial above the arched entrance, which is supported by cylindrical engaged shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. Inside, there is a pointed chancel arch with polygonal shafts and capitals, and a restored 15th-century roof. Corbels from a previous roof remain at the base of the clerestory.
The tower, which has a rectangular plan, includes inner walls on the north and south that enclose a square space covered by a star-shaped vault, supported by corbels shaped like helmets and shields. Arches to the north, south, and east are carried on polygonal shafts with embattled capitals. The church also features a Norman font, square in plan, carved with a lozenge pattern, and an 18th-century pulpit and communion rail. The north aisle retains red painted outlining that imitates masonry, with each 'block' painted with a five-petalled flower.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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