The Priory Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 July 1954. A C12 Church.

The Priory Church of St Peter and St Paul

WRENN ID
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Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Herefordshire, County of
Constituency
North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
Country
England
Date first listed
24 July 1954
Type
Church
Address
The Priory Church of St Peter and St Paul, Leominster
OS grid reference
SO 498 592
Coordinates
52.22941, -2.73565
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Priory Church of St Peter and St Paul is a historic church located in Leominster, originally built in the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries. Constructed from ashlar sandstone and topped with lead roofs, it serves as a parish church today. The church features a Norman priory section to the north, which includes a west tower, and a 19th-century north aisle. The central part of the church is from the 13th century, while the south aisle, complete with a south-west porch, dates to the 14th century.

The exterior of the church includes a north front with leaded clerestory lights set under semicircular arches between pilaster buttresses, above a pentice-roofed aisle featuring five lancet windows and four timber dormers. The tower has two tiers of quatrefoil-headed mullion lights, blind arcading at the parapet, and finials adorned with ballflower ornamentation. The ornate west doorway is decorated with dogtooth mouldings on arches supported by carved capitals. The west front showcases a buttressed window with intricate tracery and a decorated window on the south aisle. The south front is notable for five 4-light decorated windows with ballflower ornamentation, buttresses supporting a parapet with trefoil-headed balustrading, and a porch featuring moulded pointed arches on clustered colonnettes, along with a panelled ceiling. The east front includes a 14th-century east window and a south aisle window with ballflower ornamentation, alongside a plain light in the north aisle under a moulded arch on colonnettes.

Inside the church, there is an organ-case dated 1739, wall paintings, and stained glass by Kempe.

Local climate

The Priory Church of St Peter and St Paul receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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