Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Epping Forest local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. Church.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- turning-cellar-twilight
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Epping Forest
- Constituency
- Brentwood and Ongar MP: Alex Burghart (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shellow Road, Shellow Bowells, Willingale
- OS grid reference
- TL 607 078
- Coordinates
- 51.74631, 0.3265
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul, now a house, dates from the mid 18th century and later. It features red Flemish bond brickwork and a gabled peg tile roof. The building has a simple rectangular nave with a lower and narrower chancel, which is likely a later addition. At the west end, there is a weatherboarded square bell cupola topped with a leaded square domical roof, a finial, and a weathervane. A 20th-century ventilator finial is located on the mid ridge line. The brickwork displays an irregular diaper pattern of blue headers and has a dentilled eaves cornice. Each flank wall of the nave contains two large semi-circular arched windows with rectangular leaded lights. The west end features a high-mounted stone plaque dated '1754' above a three-light perpendicular style stone window with cinque-foiled lights and a square label. Below this is a segmental-headed west doorway. The east window mirrors the west window with similar perpendicular style lights. The roof is contemporary and includes joggled side purlins and queen posts.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 670 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 99% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1999
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