Church of St Mary and St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. Church.
Church of St Mary and St Peter
- WRENN ID
- hollow-flint-oak
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary and St Peter, Church Road, Waddingham
- OS grid reference
- SK 987 963
- Coordinates
- 53.45473, -0.5145
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary and St Peter is a parish church dating back to the 13th century, with significant alterations in the 15th century and a restoration around 1860 by James Fowler. It is constructed of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with a slate roof featuring decorative ridge tiles and stone coped gables adorned with 19th-century crosses fleury.
The church comprises a west tower, a nave, a chancel, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a vestry. The three-stage west tower has a moulded plinth, two chamfered string courses, and an embattled parapet. The west wall incorporates stepped buttresses to the first stage, a 2-light 19th-century window, and a clock above. The belfry stage has 15th-century double lights with deep chamfered reveals and pointed heads under 4-centred arches on all four sides. A 15th-century doorway with a 4-centred arched head provides access to the tower stair, which rises in the northeast angle.
The north aisle has a plinth and contains a 19th-century lancet on the west wall, along with two 19th-century 2-light windows. A blocked early 13th-century pointed doorway, simply moulded imposts, and a chamfered hood would are also present. The easternmost window on the north side is late 13th century, featuring two lights with trefoils above, within a chamfered surround with a hood mould and a single surviving human head label stop. The clerestory features three 19th-century cusped lights in circular frames. The 19th-century vestry, located on the north side of the chancel, contains a contemporary lancet window. The east wall of the chancel has three stepped 19th-century lancets with a hood mould and shield label stops, while the south side has two similar lancets.
The east and west walls of the south aisle contain 13th-century lancets, and a late 13th-century cross fleury tombstone head is reused as a quoin on the east wall. The south wall has two 19th-century paired lights. A 19th-century round chimney rests on a square base near the southeast angle of the nave. The 19th-century gabled south porch has a moulded outer arch with leafy label stops, and the south doorway is a heavily restored 13th-century opening featuring nook shafts with conceptual foliage capitals, a double roll moulded head, a continuing outer order of dog tooth decoration, and revealing details.
The interior features early 13th-century three-bay arcades with double chamfered arches, quatrefoil keeled piers, annular capitals, and simply chamfered hood moulds with 19th-century leafy label stops. The 13th-century tower arch has two chamfered orders that die into the responds. A blocked niche is located at the southeast angle of the nave. The 13th-century chancel arch has keeled responds, foliate, hob nailed capitals with 19th-century bases. The roofs and fittings are 19th-century, including an interesting latticed and arched iron screen to the tower.
Local climate
Church of St Mary and St Peter receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% 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 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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