Church of St Peter and Holy Cross is a Grade II* listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1984. A Victorian Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Peter and Holy Cross
- WRENN ID
- dusk-shingle-fen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- Romsey and Southampton North MP: Caroline Nokes (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1984
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Peter and Holy Cross, Church Street, Wherwell
- OS grid reference
- SU 391 408
- Coordinates
- 51.16531, -1.44151
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and Holy Cross is a parish church that replaced a double-aisled medieval building, which may have been associated with the nearby Benedictine Nunnery. It was constructed between 1856 and 1858 by architect Woodyer. The church features a nave and aisles with four bays, a chancel, a north vestry, a western bell turret, and a south porch. It has a tiled roof that extends above the aisles without a clerestory. The walls are made of flint with stone dressings, and there are buttresses, geometrical windows, cill banding on the chancel, and a plinth. Inside, the north aisle at the west end contains built-in sculptured fragments, an effigy of a nun on a modern base, an altar tomb from 1551 dedicated to Sir Owen West with early Renaissance details, and a medieval corbel made from part of a Saxon cross featuring interlaced carving.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and Holy Cross receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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