Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Stratford-on-Avon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 13 October 1966. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- white-thatch-dust
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Constituency
- Kenilworth and Southam MP: Sir Jeremy Wright (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 13 October 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Whatcote
- OS grid reference
- SP 298 445
- Coordinates
- 52.09833, -1.56526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a church that dates from the 12th to the 14th century, with restorations carried out in 1820 and repairs around 1940. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed ironstone rubble, featuring ironstone banded with limestone at the east end, and has tile and slate roofs with stone coped gables topped with ball finials. The church comprises a chancel, nave, west tower, and south porch.
The chancel includes a three-light east window with intersecting tracery, a pointed arched doorway with a plank door on the south side, a square-headed Perpendicular window to the left, and a two-light Perpendicular window to the right, which has a hood mould and label stops. On the north side of the nave, there is a Romanesque north doorway with billet and cable mouldings, a blocked entrance, two tall round-headed Romanesque windows, and a square-headed window. The south side of the nave features two lancets and a two-light window with Y tracery, which has a cusped head and hood mould. There is also a renewed Y traceried window to the left of the gabled porch, and a pointed arched south doorway with chamfered jambs and a plank door.
The west tower, dating from the 13th century, has two stages divided by string courses and includes lancet windows, cinquefoiled pointed lights, and trefoiled ogee-headed lights, topped with an embattled parapet. Inside, the chancel has a barrel roof with tie beams, while the nave roof is from the 19th century. The church contains 18th-century altar rails, a pulpit, and three benches with Perpendicular ends, along with a circular stone font and 18th-century memorials in the chancel dedicated to Mary Seagrove, John Seagrove, and Martha Drake.
Local climate
Church of St Peter receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% 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 70% 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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