Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 June 1986. Church.
Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- WRENN ID
- far-granite-sable
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 June 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Brailes
- OS grid reference
- SP 325 404
- Coordinates
- 52.06167, -1.52735
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul is a church built in 1878 by William Smith for Canon Thoyts. It is constructed of ironstone ashlar with red tile roofs on the nave and chancel. The church features an apsidal chancel, a nave, a south tower, and a north vestry, all designed in the Early English style. The three-stage bell tower has an uppermost bell chamber and a pyramidal wood-shingled roof.
The chancel is adorned with six lancet windows and two triplet lancets, all with continuous hood moulds, some featuring foliage stops. The south side of the nave has two lancets with hood moulds and foliage stops, while the north side has four lancets. The west window consists of three lancets with a quatrefoil above, and there is a stair turret projection to the right.
The tower has a pointed arched entrance flanked by flat angle buttresses, which have gabled niches at each angle. The ground floor features single lancets, and above them is a four-window arcade with two lancets. The second storey has three pointed arched openings with clustered columns and louvres, along with a corbel table decorated with foliage. The tower is also embellished with gargoyles, buttresses, and a moulded plinth, and it has a plank door with wrought-iron hinges.
Inside, the apsidal chancel showcases polychrome stonework made of limestone, ironstone, and marble, along with a marble reredos and a stone arcade. The nave has an arched braced roof, with some arches springing from stone corbels. Additional features include a brass communion rail and various late 19th-century fittings such as choir stalls, pews, a pulpit, and a stone font. A 19th-century wrought-iron gate leads to the south doorway. The church is prominently situated, overlooking the valley and Brailes to the south.
Local climate
Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% 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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