Church of St Andrew and St Peter 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 Andrew and St Peter
- WRENN ID
- muted-grate-myrtle
- 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 Andrew and St Peter, Longham
- OS grid reference
- TF 931 161
- Coordinates
- 52.7089, 0.85826
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Andrew and St Peter is a parish church that dates from the medieval period and later. It is constructed of flint with ashlar and some brick dressings, topped with plaintile and pantile roofs. The building features a west tower, an aisleless nave with a south porch, and a chancel with a vestry to the north. The truncated west tower, likely from the 15th century, includes diagonal buttresses and a canted stair projection on the south side. The west window is a restored three-light Perpendicular style window with an embattled transom. The bell stage has been partially rebuilt and includes one plain arched bell opening to the east, along with a crenellated parapet dressed in gault brick.
The nave is extensively buttressed and has five three-light Perpendicular windows, each with embattled transoms. The south doorway is wave moulded, while the north doorway is hollow chamfered. The porch features a re-set 15th-century entrance arch with blind traceried spandrels. The chancel is modern, with brick dressings and a moulded brick cornice. Inside, there are two re-used two-light late-medieval south windows and a modern three-light east window in Perpendicular style. The tower arch is wave moulded and rests on polygonal responds, while the chancel arch is plain chamfered, also on polygonal responds. A surviving rood stair is located to the south, and there is a medieval chancel screen with carved tracery and some traces of original paint. A modern polygonal font is also present.
Local climate
Church of St Andrew and St Peter 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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