Roman Catholic Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Greenwich local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 June 1973. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Roman Catholic Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- errant-balcony-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Greenwich
- Constituency
- Greenwich and Woolwich MP: Matthew Pennycook (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 June 1973
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of St Peter, Woolwich New Road Se18
- OS grid reference
- TQ 435 786
- Coordinates
- 51.48816, 0.06668
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of St Peter was built in 1843 by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, with a later addition of a chancel. The church comprises a nave and aisles, but lacks a clerestory. The chancel is an extension of the nave, built to the same height. It is constructed of multicoloured stock brick with stone dressings, and the window tracery is in the Decorated style. The building features stepped buttresses to the aisles, and angle buttresses at the east end. The elaborate, multi-planed moulded doorway is located in the west bay of the south aisle, with a smaller door at the west end. Large windows are present at both the east and west ends.
Inside, the nave consists of five bays with sharply pointed arches supported on quatrefoil piers. A wood gallery is situated at the west end. The church contains a traceried stone reredos.
The Roman Catholic Church of St Peter forms a group with numbers 103 and 105, which was formerly a Roman Catholic school.
Local climate
Roman Catholic 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 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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