Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Slough local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- fallow-corbel-myrtle
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Slough
- Constituency
- Slough MP: Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Church Street, SL1 2NL
- OS grid reference
- SU 966 795
- Coordinates
- 51.50679, -0.60829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building constructed between 1860 and 1861 by architect G.E. Street in a neo-Gothic style. It features knapped flint with Bath stone dressings and red brick lacing courses, topped with tiled roofs that change pitch over the aisle. The church comprises a nave, north aisle, north porch, chancel, and vestry, and is supported by angle and clasping buttresses. The east side has a cill string, parapeted gable ends, and a bellcote on the west with two trefoil arched openings.
On the north aisle, there are four trefoil-headed lancet windows on the left, and a doorway on the right with a chamfered arch, moulded imposts, and two boarded doors. The gabled north porch has a moulded arch and two 20th-century wrought iron gates. The chancel's north side features a trefoil-headed window on the left and a lean-to vestry on the right, which has two trefoil-headed lights facing east and a segmental arched boarded door to the north. The south side has two two-light windows with Y-tracery. The east end showcases a large quatrefoiled circular window set in an arched recess, flanked by two smaller quatrefoils below.
The nave's south side includes a two-light window on the left and a three-light window on the right with trefoiled tracery. The west front is dominated by a large four-light window with foiled plate tracery and a hoodmould featuring carved stops, along with two trefoil-headed lights in the aisle to the left.
Inside, the church has a four-bay north aisle arcade supported by circular piers with foliated capitals and chamfered arches decorated with nailhead motifs. The chancel arch is chamfered and has a hoodmould with carved stops. The east window features nook shafts and nailhead decoration. Notable fittings include a semi-circular stone pulpit with a foliated frieze and an arcaded square font. The stained glass is by Kempe.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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