Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the East Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1966. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
knotted-dormer-scarlet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
East Suffolk
Constituency
Central Suffolk and North Ipswich MP: Patrick Spencer (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
7 December 1966
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Peter, the Street, Cransford
OS grid reference
TM 315 647
Coordinates
52.23234, 1.38974
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter is a parish church that dates back to the medieval period and underwent significant restoration in 1864 and 1874. It features a nave, chancel, west tower, north porch, and south vestry, constructed from random flint and stone rubble with stone dressings. The nave and chancel have remnants of old plaster on the north side and are cement-rendered on the south side, topped with plaintiled roofs.

The 15th-century tower has three-stage diagonal buttresses on the west face and a 19th-century crenellated parapet. It includes panelled flushwork on the plinth and buttresses, a two-light west window, and two-light openings in the bell chamber. The nave, also from the 15th century, has two-light windows, likely renewed, with two on the north and one on the south side, as well as a blocked 15th-century south doorway. The porch was added in 1864.

The north wall of the chancel features a possibly 13th-century lancet window, while the rest of the chancel has been entirely rebuilt. Both the nave and chancel have mid-19th-century arched-braced roofs. The church contains a mid-19th-century font and furnishings, and the south chancel displays an early 18th-century wall monument with a scrolled pediment. The church is graded II* for its medieval work, particularly the tower.

Local climate

Church of St Peter sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 81% 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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