Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 February 1967. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- leaning-grate-bistre
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Peter, East and West Buckland
- OS grid reference
- SS 656 313
- Coordinates
- 51.06534, -3.91823
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church with a 15th-century tower. The rest of the building was rebuilt and the tower restored between 1860 and 1863 by R D Gould. It is constructed of stone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has slate roofs with coped gable ends and apex crosses, including crested ridge tiles to the chancel and south porch.
The church consists of a west tower, nave, chancel, and south aisle. The three-stage tower has an embattled parapet and diagonal buttresses. It features straight-headed bell-openings of two 4-centred arched lights on the south and east sides, a single light to the west and north sides, and a second stage on the south side. A 19th-century Decorated style pointed arched window of 3 lights sits above the doorway on the west side; the right-hand corbel is missing. The south aisle has 2-light windows to each end. A 19th-century south porch has an apex gablet, segmental arched doorway, and a corbel hoodmould, with a pointed arched inner doorway. The nave has two 2-light windows to the south side, and three trefoiled clerestory windows above. A small elongated quatrefoil window is located to the left of a single light window on the south side of the chancel. The chancel has a 3-light pointed arched east window with human head corbels to the hoodmould and a blind trefoil panel above. A vestry window and three 2-light windows are set into the north side.
Inside, the nave has a 19th-century crown post roof with corbelled out wall posts and intermediate queen post trusses. The chancel has a scissor-braced roof, and the south aisle has unusual windbracing to its monopitch roof. A south arcade of 3 bays has segmental pointed arches springing from circular marble piers. The 15th-century tower arch is semi-circular-headed with moulded piers. The pointed chancel arch features decorative patterned tiles to the outer arch, with the inner arch springing from short marble colonnettes. A cusped-headed piscina is set into the north wall of the chancel, and double trefoil-headed sedilia sit on the south side, with a central marble colonnette. A patterned tiled reredos is also present. The church retains 19th-century furnishings, including an altar table with three pierced cusped headed panels to the front, a pulpit, chandeliers, and nave seating. 19th-century stained glass is in the east window.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Huxtables Farmhouse
- South Stoodleigh Farmhouse Including Attached Outbuildings to Rear
- West Buckland School
- East Bushton Farmhouse Including Shippon Attached at South East End
- Illers Leary Farmhouse Including Shippon Attached at West End
- Buckinghams Leary Farmhouse
- Goulds Leary Farmhouse
- Higher Pitt Farmhouse
- Farm Building at Accott
- Whitsford Farmhouse