Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the South Oxfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 July 1963. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- south-hearth-mist
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Oxfordshire
- Constituency
- Henley and Thame MP: Freddie van Mierlo (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 July 1963
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Cuxham with Easington
- OS grid reference
- SU 661 970
- Coordinates
- 51.66846, -1.04435
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building located in Easington, dating from the early 14th century. It is constructed of limestone random rubble with ribbon pointing and features ashlar quoins, topped with a gabled old tile roof. The church comprises a nave and chancel, with an early 14th-century three-light east window that has a string course at sill level and is flanked by corner buttresses.
The south wall has four bays, featuring two trefoil-headed lancets and two segmental-headed lights, one of which includes a piece of 12th-century zig-zag moulding above it, along with buttresses. The north wall also has buttresses and three similar lancets, as well as a reset 12th-century round-headed doorway with quatrefoil-carved imposts, leading to a late 19th-century door and timber porch. At the west end, there is a gabled bellcote.
Inside, there is an early 14th-century trefoil-headed piscina, a panelled pulpit dated 1633 that was rebuilt in 1916, and 19th-century pews. The chancel features a two-bay queen-post roof, while the nave has a three-bay arch-braced collar-truss roof from the 14th or 15th century, complete with curved windbraces and tie beams that are carved on the soffits. A queen-post truss is located at the extreme west end. The stained glass includes the east window with twelve reset 14th-century rosettes and decorative glass from the 14th century in the apex light.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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