Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the North Norfolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 March 1959. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- tilted-landing-falcon
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Norfolk
- Constituency
- Broadland and Fakenham MP: Jerome Mayhew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 March 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, the Street, Dunton
- OS grid reference
- TF 879 303
- Coordinates
- 52.83758, 0.7888
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church, primarily built in the Perpendicular style. It features a flint structure with stone dressings, a slate roof for the nave, and tiled roofs for the chancel. The church includes a west tower, nave, south porch, and chancel. The west tower is designed in the Perpendicular style, with set-off angle buttresses, a west door, and a two-light window. It has four rectangular traceried sound holes for the belfry and four two-light Decorated tracery belfry windows, although one on the south side is missing its tracery. The south porch is also in the Perpendicular style and has a five-panel south door.
On the south wall of the nave, there is one switch tracery window and a three-light straight-headed Perpendicular window. The north wall of the nave contains a blocked north door dating to around 1300 and two two-light Decorated windows. The chancel has one two-light straight-headed Perpendicular window and one Decorated two-light window on the south side, along with a Priest's door. The north side features one two-light Decorated window, while the east window is a four-light intersecting tracery window from around 1500.
Inside, the Perpendicular tower has an arch on responds, and there is a Perpendicular tower door set in a Perpendicular arch. The chancel arch is also Perpendicular and includes doors for stairs and a rood loft. The nave has a piscina on the south wall and stone window embrasure seats at the north and south chancel windows. A rood screen with a loft from around 1900 is present, and the east window features stained glass from 1863. The nave has a mid-19th century arched braced roof supported by mid-19th century corbels. Wall tablets date from 1834 by Smith of Fakenham and 1857 by Patterson of Manchester. The altar area has a black and white marble floor from the 18th century.
Local climate
Church of St Peter receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 18 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 82% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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