Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the North Warwickshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1989. Church.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- rooted-wattle-fog
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Warwickshire
- Constituency
- North Warwickshire and Bedworth MP: Rachel Taylor (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1989
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, New Road, Water Orton
- OS grid reference
- SP 177 910
- Coordinates
- 52.51747, -1.74058
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church built in 1879 by Bateman and Courser. It features rock-faced ashlar with smooth ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof with coped verges. The church has a north-west tower, a 4-bay nave with a north aisle, a north-east transept, and a polygonal apse flanked by a vestry and an organ chamber, all designed in the Gothic style.
The tower consists of three stages, marked by strings, with angle buttresses that die into the second stage. It has corner pinnacles and a recessed stone spire, which is adorned with a frieze of quatrefoils at its base. The pointed west doorway features two wave-moulded orders and a double-leaf plank door. The first stage has single-light pointed windows, while the second stage has pointed windows with two trefoil-headed lights and two roll and fillet-moulded orders springing from colonettes.
The nave and aisle contain square-headed windows of two lights with unorthodox Decorated tracery, as well as sexfoiled clerestory lights. The pointed west window features cusped intersecting tracery. The north transept has a pointed three-light window with Geometrical tracery, mirrored by a similar window in the south wall. The chancel apse is adorned with three-light pointed windows also featuring Geometrical tracery.
Inside, there is a 4-bay north arcade with pointed arches of two chamfered orders, supported by cylindrical columns with moulded capitals and bases. The roof is arch-braced with collar beams and king-posts above the collars, with arch braces springing from colonettes on corbels. The pointed chancel arch leads to a vaulted chancel with roll and fillet moulded ribs, featuring green man heads as imposts. The chancel windows have hood moulds with stiff leaf stops, and all three eastern windows contain stained glass.
Notable fittings include a good octagonal font with a panelled basin and colonettes at the angles, as well as an octagonal pulpit with panelled and traceried sides and a pedestal.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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