Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1984. Church.

Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Dorset
Constituency
West Dorset MP: Edward Morello (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 1984
Type
Church
Address
Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul, Caundle Marsh
OS grid reference
ST 677 132
Coordinates
50.91765, -2.45968
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul, built in 1857 by architect R H Shout, is constructed of squared, coursed rubble with ashlar dressings. The roof features plain and scalloped tiles, with gable ends that have stone copings and cross finials. The church has a plan that includes a nave, chancel, and a north porch, with a bell cote situated between the nave and chancel.

The nave windows each contain two pointed, trefoiled lights with labels, while the west nave window has three lights under a two-centred head with a label and 'decorated' tracery featuring two quatrefoils. The chancel windows consist of two rounded, trefoiled lights with returned labels, and the east chancel window has three lights under a two-centred head with a label that has carved stops, along with 'decorated' tracery and a large trefoil. The church is supported by diagonal buttresses at the angles and square set buttresses at the division between the nave and chancel, and it features a coved ashlar cornice.

The porch is gabled and made of open timberwork set on a rubble case. The south chancel door has a moulded two-centred head with continuous jambs, and the label features ballflower stops. Inside, there is a two-centred, moulded chancel arch that springs from short respond shafts with capitals on carved angel corbels. The chancel rerearches are supported by free-standing shafts, and the central mullions of the windows bear carved heads. The north door has a shouldered rere-arch. The chancel has a waggon roof, while the nave features an arch-braced collar roof, both supported on ashlar pieces.

Additional interior features include a stone pulpit from 1920 with fielded panels, a possibly 20th-century octagonal font with quatrefoils bearing floral motifs, stone altar rails, and dividing walls under the chancel arch. There is a 17th-century table tomb bearing a coat of arms set under a four-centred arch in the north chancel wall, a piscina in the chancel, and various 19th and 20th-century monuments.

Local climate

Parish Church of Sts Peter and Paul receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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