Church of St Peter is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 December 1949. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- silent-rotunda-rye
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 December 1949
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter, St Peter's Street
- OS grid reference
- TR 147 580
- Coordinates
- 51.28079, 1.07774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a Grade I listed building dating from the 14th to 15th century, built on the site of a likely Roman Christian church. The exterior features a single storey made of flint and coursed rubble, incorporating fragments of Roman brick, with a tiled roof and restored lancet windows. The northwest tower is crenellated, and the rear elevation has a half hipped roof. Inside, the church has a nave and two aisles that date back to the 12th century, with a four-bay nave and restored double and triple lancet windows. The wooden roof adds to the interior's character, which includes a piscina and a 13th-century sanctuary with an Easter Sepulchre. There is a Norman font topped with a 17th-century lid on a pulley attached to a wrought iron bracket, along with Georgian wall monuments and a late 17th-century mace rest. The Church of St Peter, along with Nos 12, 13, and 13A, forms a group.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% 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 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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