Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 March 1962. A Saxon and later Church.

Church of All Saints

WRENN ID
wild-zinc-fen
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 March 1962
Type
Church
Period
Saxon and later
Address
Church of All Saints, Church Lane, Wittering, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TF 056 020
Coordinates
52.60569, -0.44156
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of All Saints is a Grade I listed building located on Church Lane in Wittering. This church has origins dating back to the Saxon period, featuring a Saxon chancel arch, the south wall of the nave, and the east end of the chancel. The Norman north arcade and the 14th-century north aisle and chapel add to its historical significance, along with the late 13th to early 14th-century west tower.

The tower is constructed of ashlar stone, while the rest of the church is made from coursed stone rubble, topped with a Collyweston stone roof. The nave showcases Saxon long-and-short work at the angles, tall two-light Perpendicular south windows, and a late 13th-century south doorway. The 14th-century north aisle contains a blocked four-centred arch doorway or window, and the north chapel also dates from this period.

The chancel features Saxon long-and-short work in the angles, a late 13th-century south window with plate tracery, and a lancet and two-light east window. The west tower, built in the late 13th to early 14th century, has diagonal buttresses and two-light bell-openings adorned with quatrefoiled circles, topped by a squat stone broach spire with lucarnes. A 19th-century south porch provides access to the church.

Inside, the church has a mid-12th-century two-bay north arcade with a circular pier, square abacus, and scalloped capital. The arches are decorated with roll moulding featuring zig-zag and lozenge patterns. The massive Saxon chancel arch is notable for its roll moulding and large rectangular capitals and abaci. There is a double chamfered arch leading from the chancel to the north chapel, which contains an early 14th-century tomb recess. The church has late 19th-century roofs and furnishings, a squat cylindrical font, and stained glass in the east window created by Kempe in 1903.

Local climate

Church of All Saints sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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