Parish Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1956. A Medieval Church.

Parish Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
tenth-grate-yarrow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1956
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Parish Church of St Peter, Church Hill, Langton Herring
OS grid reference
SY 614 824
Coordinates
50.64055, -2.5467
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of St Peter is a church located in Langton Herring, dating back to the 14th century, with a nave and chancel. An early 19th-century west tower was added, and the church underwent significant restoration in 1827 and 1858, during which a vestry and south aisle were also added. The church features rubble-stone walls with stone dressings and slate roofs.

The chancel includes a 20th-century east window, while the south wall has two windows; the eastern window is 20th-century except for its jambs and cill, and the western window is a single 14th-century lancet. The nave's north wall has three windows: a single 20th-century lancet and two 20th-century two-light windows with panel tracery. Below the middle window are the jambs of a destroyed north doorway. The west tower serves as the entrance to the church through the south wall and consists of three stages, with two strings and thin loop-lights, topped with a castellated parapet. There is an additional pointed-arch entrance on the north side.

Inside, the church features a south arcade with two bays and a large central column that has a square block capital with flat fascias, dating from the 19th century. The west doorway has a restored two-centred head, and the chancel arch has a single respond order with moulded jambs and a label with square stops. The chancel arch is a 20th-century addition with reused responds.

Notable fittings include a stone font with an octagonal bowl, each face adorned with a quatrefoiled panel, a moulded underside, and a stem featuring a trefoil-headed panel on each face, resting on a moulded and stepped square base from the 15th century. The communion rails are from the 17th century, featuring turned balusters and newels with turned tops, along with a moulded and enriched rail. There is also a white marble tablet monument on the north wall, commemorating William Sparks, who died on March 3, 1829, aged 70, and made by Chislett.

Local climate

Parish Church of St Peter receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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