Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
open-threshold-dew
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
South Gloucestershire
Constituency
Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 December 1984
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Peter, Cross Hands Road, Pilning and Severn Beach, BS35 4JB
OS grid reference
ST 557 850
Coordinates
51.56271, -2.63951
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter is a parish church built in 1855 by H. Crisp, with a late 20th-century south extension designed in the same style. It is constructed from snecked rubble with stone dressings and has a plain tiled roof featuring raised coped verges. The church is designed in the Early English style and consists of a nave, chancel, west porch, and north vestry.

The west front features a large three-light window with a continuous hood mould over each light, a gabled porch with a pointed arched opening and mask stops to the hood mould, and an inner door set in a chamfered surround. There is an open bellcote housing two bells, topped with a cross finial. The nave has a five-bay layout with a southwest door leading to a smaller gabled porch. All windows are lancets with a continuous hood mould interrupted by buttresses, and there is a plinth at the base. The north vestry, accessed from the chancel, includes a two-light window with a trefoil head, a hood mould, lion and mask gargoyles, and an east door with a shaped head. The chancel has a three-light east window, each light featuring a trefoil head, a continuous hood mould, and stops, along with a cross finial.

Inside, the five-bay nave has an arched-brace and collar roof supported by corbels, a moulded wall-plate, and two rows of purlins. There is a pointed segmental arched opening to the pulpit with three chamfered orders, and a high pointed arch leading to the chancel, which has triple jamb-shafts with moulded bases and ball capitals. The chancel features a common rafter roof, a door to the vestry with a shaped head, a piscina in the north wall, and two openings leading to the 20th-century extension. The church contains contemporary fittings, including a pulpit, pews, and a Norman font in the nave with a square bowl and lead lining, which was likely removed from the Church of St Thomas in Northwick during its demolition.

Local climate

Church of St Peter receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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