Church of St Peter and Paul is a Grade II* listed building in the Breckland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 May 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter and Paul
- WRENN ID
- muted-slate-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Breckland
- Constituency
- Mid Norfolk MP: George Freeman (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 May 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter and Paul, Wendling
- OS grid reference
- TF 931 131
- Coordinates
- 52.68149, 0.85569
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and Paul is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and features slate and copper roofs. The church has a west tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, a south transept, and a chancel. The west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a two-light panel traceried west window with an embattled transom. There is a canted staircase projection on the north side and two-light cusped Y-traceried bell-openings. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet that includes flushwork.
Inside the nave, there is a Norman west jamb from a former south door located to the west of the porch, along with two restored two-light traceried windows on the south side. A 14th-century plain chamfered doorway is present, with a re-set Norman prokrossos above it. There is also a blocked 14th-century plain chamfered doorway on the north side, which has fragments of a former Norman doorway adjacent to it. The nave contains one three-light panel traceried window and one three-light window with mouchettes, as well as signs of a former rood stair.
The south transept features a four-light panel traceried window in the gable end, while the south porch has a four-centred entrance arch. The chancel includes two 14th-century two-light windows on the south side, which have dagger soufflets, and a priest's door with carved label stops. The east window of the chancel is a 15th-century three-light window.
Inside, the church has a three-ordered tower arch without responds, a moulded four-centred chancel arch on facetted responds, and a plain chamfered four-centred transept arch on corbels. There is a plain blocked rood stair doorway on the north side, a medieval arch-braced chancel roof, and an octagonal font with rustic and mutilated carvings.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and Paul receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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