Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the St Albans local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- sheer-wall-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- St Albans
- Constituency
- St Albans MP: Daisy Cooper (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Riverside, London Colney, AL2 1QA
- OS grid reference
- TL 181 037
- Coordinates
- 51.72013, -0.29039
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church built in 1825 by George Smith. It is an early example of the Norman revival style. The church features a painted stucco facade, which was removed during repairs in 1987, and red brick side elevations. It has a slate roof and a single aisle with a two-storeyed gabled front. The front is divided into three sections with shallow stepped buttresses, and the central buttresses once had pinnacles. The entrance door is round-arched and approached by a flight of steps, flanked by narrow blank arches. Above the door is a tripartite arched window, and all doors and windows have hood moulds. Most openings include slender shafts with scalloped capitals. The side elevations have five round-headed cast iron casements. Inside, there are four wooden roof trusses and a six-column rear gallery. The stained glass windows, depicting the ascension, were designed by the Dowager Marchioness of Waterford and made by Hughes in 1865. An extension was added to the north in 1983-1984.
Local climate
Church of St Peter 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 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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