Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Harborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
patient-chalk-tide
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Harborough
Constituency
Rutland and Stamford MP: Alicia Kearns (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Peter, Horninghold
OS grid reference
SP 806 970
Coordinates
52.56568, -0.81092
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter is a church that dates from the 12th to 13th centuries, with restorations carried out in 1844, 1904, and 1936. It is built from coursed rubble stone with stone dressings and features an ashlar spire, along with leaded and Collyweston slate roofs. The church has stone coped gables and consists of a west tower with a spire, a nave, aisles, a chancel, and a north porch.

The late 13th-century west tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a west doorway, four bell openings with Y tracery, and a short broach spire. It includes a tier of lucarnes with cusped lights and plate tracery, topped with a foliage finial. Inside, there is a triple chamfered nave arch, with the chamfer continuing to the ground. The north arcade has three bays with double chamfered arches on octagonal piers, while the early 13th-century south arcade has a similar three bays but features rounded arches.

The clerestory is of the Perpendicular style and has three 2-light flat-topped windows on either side. The north aisle contains a Perpendicular 3-light northeast window and two 2-light flat-topped north windows. The north porch features a single chamfered archway. The chancel arch is double chamfered, with the inner arch resting on polygonal responds. The chancel has three-light flat-topped windows to the north and south, and a similar 2-light window to the east, along with a whitewashed plastered ceiling.

The south aisle mirrors the north with similar 3-light windows and has a reset Norman south doorway. Decorative features include palmette decoration in the imposts, and on the arch, there are three concentric tiers of chip-carved stars, along with a hood mould that has billet moulding. The church also contains a 13th-century octagonal font with an 18th-century cover, some medieval bench ends (a few with poppy-heads), and a Knight Templar coffin slab from around 1260, which is now mounted on the wall near the west door. Additionally, there is an 18th-century communion rail with turned balusters, and on the east wall of the north aisle, three 18th-century slate wall monuments are mounted.

Local climate

Church of St Peter receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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