Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1966. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- late-stair-burdock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Church Lane, Aisthorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 946 801
- Coordinates
- 53.3101, -0.58126
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church dating from 1867, designed by T. C. Hine of Nottingham. It was built in the style of the 13th century using rock-faced limestone ashlar with contrasting red sandstone dressings. The roofs are tiled with raised stone coped gables, decorative kneelers, and crosses fleury. The church comprises a west tower, nave, chancel, north porch, and vestry.
The west tower has three stages with angled buttresses. It features paired pointed lights with circular openings in the tympana, nook shafts on all four faces of the belfry stage, a wheel window with a moulded surround and lobes separated by colonettes on the west wall, and a single lancet above. The broach spire features large coursed lucarnes in the principal directions, each with stone gables and floriate terminals. The north porch is gabled with a pointed doorway, leading to a single chamfered doorway without capitals. It has paired quatrefoil lights in the side walls. The north nave wall incorporates two paired lights with plate tracery and four quatrefoil vents at the wallhead. The north chancel wall has two lancets, while the chancel’s east window comprises three lights of plate tracery with an octofoil above. The south chancel window is a paired light with plate tracery. The attached vestry has a single lancet east light and a shaped ashlar chimney stack to the southwest angle. The south nave wall includes a single three-light window with an octofoil in the head, two two-light windows with cinquefoils above, and four quatrefoil vents at the top of the wall. All windows feature hoodmoulds with human head stops and arches constructed from alternating limestone and red sandstone.
Inside, the tall, double-chamfered tower arch dies into imposts. The chancel arch is also double-chamfered and stilted, with octagonal capitals and responds. The chancel features a painted wooden ceiling with hobnail-decorated cornices and corbels; behind the altar is a reredos with five small arches springing from marble colonettes. A trefoil-headed gabled aumbry is surmounted by a cross in the north wall. Oak chancel and tower screens are in the Perpendicular style. An octagonal font is decorated with floriate panels and has a fine brass-mounted cover. There are also three brass two-tier candelabra. The other fittings all date from 1867.
Local climate
Church of St Peter 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% 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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