Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Walsall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- gentle-truss-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Walsall
- Constituency
- Walsall and Bloxwich MP: Valerie Vaz (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Stafford Street, WS2 8DX
- OS grid reference
- SP 010 994
- Coordinates
- 52.59249, -1.98647
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a church that began construction in 1839 and was consecrated in 1841, designed by Isaac Highway of Walsall. A chancel was added in 1910. The building is made of brick and features slate and tile roofs. Although the orientation has been reversed, it is described here in the conventional manner. The church consists of a west tower, a nave, and a lower chancel.
The tower includes angle buttresses at the lower stage, with attached octagonal shafts above that end in pinnacles. There are three string courses, one located below an embattled parapet. The tower features clock faces below the lancet bell openings and a lancet window above the pointed west doorway. Each side of the tower has a low porch, with a door facing west and a lancet window on the side. The nave comprises seven bays, with lancet windows separated by buttresses. The chancel has two bays to the north and one to the south, featuring paired lancets and triple stepped lancets on the east side.
Inside, there is a west gallery with a blind tracery front supported by iron columns. The queen-post roof has outer struts and diagonal cusped braces supporting the principals. The chancel features a pointed stone arch and an open timber roof with arch-braced collars. The narrower sanctuary has a pointed moulded stone arch, and the windows have stone inner arches with detached shafts. The interior also includes twin sedilia and an alabaster reredos. A carved timber pulpit with a stone base, given in 1904, is decorated with tracery.
Local climate
Church of St Peter receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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