Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 February 1965. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- sheer-frieze-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 February 1965
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Bittadon
- OS grid reference
- SS 545 414
- Coordinates
- 51.15366, -4.08165
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a parish church that was completely rebuilt in 1883. It features dressed stone that is roughly brought to course in some areas, with rubble stone in others, and has a slate roof with a continuous ridge running over the nave and chancel. At the west end, there is a low tower topped with a pyramidal slate roof.
On the south side, there are three gabled projections that house the vestry, transept, and porch. The porch contains a plain round-arched doorway, above which is a slate sundial by John Berry, dated 1764. The south door has a chamfered and stopped architrave. The church has 19th-century fenestration throughout, including a two-light, two-centred arch east window with intersecting tracery. The south windows of the transept and vestry are three-light and two-light, respectively, with the transept windows featuring hoodmoulds. On the north side, there are two two-light windows and a three-light west window that includes a trefoil motif in the spandrels and a hoodmould.
Inside, the church has a plain appearance with plastered walls. The nave and chancel are combined under a late 19th-century arch-braced roof, and the furnishings are also from the late 19th century. A 13th-century font with a square bowl is supported by a cluster of six columns with lipped capitals on a square base, and a painted wooden font cover with a foliated design stands beside it.
There are notable wall monuments, including one in marble on the north wall dedicated to Edward Pointz, dated 1691. This monument features trophies in a broken pediment with weeping angels reclining over a central oval medallion, which is topped by three cherub heads. Corinthian colonnettes flank the medallion, and there are cherubs carrying skulls. A smaller oval medallion below has scrolls and cherub heads on each side, with a skull beneath. Another marble wall monument on the north wall, further east, commemorates Henry Ackland, who died in 1675, and features Corinthian colonnettes on either side of the plaque, with a broken pediment and a plain shield between. Additionally, there are two small 17th-century marble wall plaques facing each other on the south transeptal walls, serving as memorials for the Chichester family.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows 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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