Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the East Lindsey local planning authority area, England. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- lost-chapel-ebony
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Lindsey
- Constituency
- Louth and Horncastle MP: Victoria Atkins (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Church Lane, Asterby
- OS grid reference
- TF 263 795
- Coordinates
- 53.29754, -0.10504
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church, now redundant, dating to the mid-14th century, with later work from the late 15th century, the early 19th century, and the late 19th century. It is constructed of green sandstone rubble with limestone ashlar dressings, and red brick, with slate roofs, stone coped gables, and an eastern cross finial.
The church comprises a west tower, a nave with a truncated north aisle, and a chancel. The west tower is of late 15th century origin, and was truncated, re-roofed, and altered in the early 19th century. It includes angle buttresses, a pointed-head doorway with a wooden door frame and plank door, a rectangular window above with two pointed lights and a hood mould, and bell openings in stone coped gables from the early 19th century with semi-circular heads and shuttering. On the north side of the nave, two western bays of a four-bay north arcade have been removed, and the area patched with early 19th century brick. A lean-to aisle to the east has two late 15th century rectangular windows; one with a single light, and the other with two lights and a mullion. The east end of the chancel has a late 19th century pointed window with three pointed, cusped lights, geometric tracery, and a hood mould. The south side of the chancel features a late 19th century pointed window with two cusped ogee headed lights and a mouchette. A gravestone, re-set to the left, is dedicated to Simon Meen, who died in 1741. The south side of the nave has early 19th century brick eaves, a semi-circular headed doorway from the early 19th century, partially blocked to form a fixed window, with a 14th century stone head at its apex. A pointed mid-14th century window, restored in the 19th century, has two ogee headed cusped lights, a mouchette, and a hood mould. A rendered brick lean-to buttress to the left has a curved triangular shaped window, likely early 19th century, with a rendered surround and fixed glass.
The church interior includes an early 19th century pine west gallery with Doric pilasters and fielded panelling. There are two mid-14th century bays of north arcade with an octagonal pier, polygonal responds, and double chamfered heads with two human heads in the spandrels. The 14th century chancel arch has polygonal responds with moulded capitals, and a double chamfered, pointed head. There are 19th century choir stalls with poppy head finials, a polygonal wooden pulpit with reliefs of Christ the Shepherd and the apostles, an ornate 19th century lectern and chair, 19th century pews, and tie beam and wagon roofs.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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