Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1966. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- floating-jade-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Oxford West and Abingdon MP: Layla Moran (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Wootton
- OS grid reference
- SP 476 013
- Coordinates
- 51.70916, -1.31217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Peter is a church dating from the early 14th century, with restorations carried out in the 15th century, 18th century, and in 1932. It is constructed from coursed and uncoursed limestone rubble, with a rendered west wall. The roof of the nave is gabled and covered with old tiles, while the chancel roof is made of stone slates. The building features a nave and chancel, along with a north chapel and vestry.
The east window, which is two-light and decorated in style, dates from the early 14th century and is flanked by corner buttresses. On the south side of the chancel, there is a two-light Y-tracery window from the 13th century, along with a splayed light. The mid-18th century north chapel has a window that mimics the style of the 13th-century window. The north side of the nave has two medieval buttresses and two from the 19th century, which flank a late 15th-century three-light window with cinquefoil heads. The late 19th-century north vestry includes a door and window styled after the 15th century.
On the south side of the nave, late 15th-century two-light and three-light windows are situated beside a 17th-century porch, which was rebuilt in 1932. The porch features a segmental arch with ovolo moulding and south doors. The west gable has offset corner buttresses and a 16th-century two-light window positioned above a late 15th-century three-light window, which has been restored with new mullions.
Inside, there is a reredos designed by Sir Ninian Comper, along with an early 14th-century ogee-headed piscina. The chancel roof was designed by Rev. S.E. Cottam around 1932, and the chancel arch is from the 18th century. The nave contains an 18th-century ledger stone in the aisle, a 19th-century pulpit, and a memorial tablet dedicated to Mrs. Elizabeth Hawkins, who died in 1780. There is also an 18th-century candelabra and medieval tiles, likely from the 15th century, relaid in the porch floor. The east window features stained glass by Kempe, commemorating Kate, the wife of Lord Berkeley, who died in 1898 and lived at Foxcombe Hall, Boars Hill.
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 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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