Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 April 1967. Church.
Church of St Peter
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Stratford-on-Avon MP: Manuela Perteghella (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 April 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Village Street, Dorsington
- OS grid reference
- SP 132 497
- Coordinates
- 52.14552, -1.80772
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a church built between 1754 and 1758, likely on earlier foundations, with restorations and a chancel added around 1870. It features brick laid in Flemish bond on a coursed blue lias rubble plinth, with ashlar dressings and steeply pitched renewed graduated stone slate roofs.
The church has a two-bay nave, a small square chancel, and a west tower. The exterior includes flush quoins and coped gables. The chancel has a coped gable with a cross, an east window with Y tracery, a single-chamfered light to the north, and a two-light straight-headed window to the south. The nave features a modillioned brick cornice and two windows with two single-chamfered trefoil-headed lights, likely from the 1870s. The three-stage tower has two string courses and a plain stone-coped brick parapet with plain stone pinnacles. The west entrance has a plain moulded ashlar arch leading to a plank door, while the top stage has blind segmental-headed windows with inset lights.
Inside, the church has a four-bay roof with king post trusses, braces, and iron straps. The double-chamfered chancel arch includes corbels, and the chancel roof features stop-chamfered members and boarding. Most fittings date from the 1870s; the chancel has enriched panelling and an altar rail on arched supports, with plain pews that have blind tracery at the ends. The pulpit, possibly reconstructed, features early 17th-century enriched round-arched panels and late 17th-century foliate panels, topped with a cornice that has an egg-and-dart design. The prayer desk has a similar cornice and linen-fold panels. An octagonal Perpendicular font is plain but has a rich string course and cornice on a mid-17th-century base with faceted panels, along with some 17th-century graffiti. There is also a painted charity panel from the 1870s. The church contains some 19th and 20th-century stained glass, including a notable 19th-century east window.
Local climate
Church of St Peter receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% 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 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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