Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1958. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- pitched-chimney-grain
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1958
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Church Street, Old Hurst
- OS grid reference
- TL 300 773
- Coordinates
- 52.37836, -0.0914
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a small 13th-century parish church located on Old Hurst Church Street. It features a nave and chancel under a continuous roof, constructed from pebble-rubble and freestone with Ketton and Barnack stone dressings, and has a plain tiled roof. The west window consists of two pointed lights set in a two-centred arch with a moulded label. The gable end has two modern recesses for bells.
On the south wall, there are three windows: two with two pointed lights and a quatrefoil in a two-centred head, both featuring moulded labels and mask stops, and one plain lancet. The south doorway has two moulded orders, with the inner order being trefoiled and the outer two-centred, supported by attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases.
The east wall was rebuilt in 1903, during which a late 13th-century window was reset, featuring two pointed lights and a quatrefoil in a two-centred head with a moulded label and mask stops. A modern north vestry has been added. Inside the chancel, there is a late 12th-century piscina pillar, and the church has a 13th-century font with an octagonal basin, each face adorned with three light window tracery, supported by a central octagonal stem and eight attached shafts with moulded capitals and bases on a common plinth.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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