Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Herefordshire, County of local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- weathered-forge-finch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Herefordshire, County of
- Constituency
- North Herefordshire MP: Dr Ellie Chowns (Green)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Dormington
- OS grid reference
- SO 583 401
- Coordinates
- 52.05858, -2.60932
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church located in Dormington, dating from the late 13th century and significantly restored in 1877 by Blashill. It is constructed of coursed and dressed sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, featuring tiled roofs and shingle on the bell-turret. The church comprises a nave, a south porch, a chancel, and a north vestry. The three-bay nave has raised verges and three stepped buttresses, with two lights featuring cusped heads to the right of the gabled porch. The west end includes a bell-turret topped with a small broach spire and simple lucarnes, along with a panel displaying a row of cinquefoil-shaped vents below the spire. The two-bay chancel has a raised verge and two pairs of trefoil-headed lights.
Inside, the church features a trussed rafter roof that may retain some 17th-century members. The chancel arch consists of two chamfered orders with heavy imposts and chamfered responds. The font, possibly from the 13th century, has a circular stem on a square base and a circular bowl with a moulded rim and necking. Notable monuments include a wall monument on the south wall of the nave commemorating Margaret Carpender, who died in 1666, featuring a broken pediment supported by draped allegorical figures, and a wall monument on the north wall commemorating John Brydges, who died in 1668, with an open scrolled pediment supported on twisted columns, drapery, and a garland below. The Norman door knocker and the wall painting on the west wall, noted by Pevsner and the Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, are now missing.
Local climate
Church of St Peter receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 66% 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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