Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Welwyn Hatfield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1983. A C19 Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- winding-jade-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Welwyn Hatfield
- Constituency
- Welwyn Hatfield MP: Andrew Lewin (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Ayot St. Peter
- OS grid reference
- TL 218 149
- Coordinates
- 51.8201, -0.23351
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter, built in 1874 by J P Seddon, is a church designed in a polychromatic early Gothic style. It features red brick with a vitreous and white brick chequer pattern, along with diapering and banding, and has flush stone dressings. The roof is made of machine tiles with terracotta cresting. A tall spire is located on the south side, with a square base that slopes to a stone steeple, which includes a mosaic clock on the east face. The round apse has one, two, and three light lancets, while the wider nave contains recessed two and three light trefoiled lancets and a multi-light west window with a central rose.
The interior is an exceptionally complete example of church furnishings from around 1880. The chancel arch is an early work by the Martin Brothers, and the stained glass in the west window, designed by Seddon, dates from 1880. The nave features a barrel vaulted wooden roof, and the font is adorned with a floral frieze and marble pillars.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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