Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman is a Grade I listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 July 1984. A Circa C13 early C14 and C15 Church.

Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman

WRENN ID
leaning-clay-vetch
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
South Hams
Constituency
South West Devon MP: Rebecca Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
19 July 1984
Type
Church
Period
Circa C13 early C14 and C15
Address
Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman, Newton and Noss
OS grid reference
SX 563 464
Coordinates
50.30034, -4.01778
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman is a redundant church dating from the 13th century, with elements from the early 14th and 15th centuries. It is constructed of slate rubble with granite dressings and features slate roofs. The church includes a nave, chancel, south aisle, north transept, south porch, and a northwest tower.

The nave is roofless and has a Perpendicular three-light north window and a round-arched north doorway. The west gable end of the nave features a blocked triangular-headed two-light window and a small round-headed window below, flanked by buttresses with set-offs. The chancel has a three-light east window with rectilinear tracery. The north transept contains a two-light window with crude 14th-century granite tracery.

The long south aisle showcases 15th-century moulded four-centred arch three-light windows, a Perpendicular three-light east window, and a two-light west window. It also has a moulded two-centred arch south doorway. The gabled south porch features a round arch with impost mouldings and a carved unceiled wagon roof. The gabled tower at the west end of the north side of the nave has round-headed bell-openings with slate louvres, and the lower east window has a carved jamb that may be part of a Saxon cross shaft.

Inside, there is a four-bay south arcade with wide double hollow-chamfered four-centred arches supported by monolithic granite piers with alternating shafts and hollows, along with moulded bases and similar capitals. The south aisle has an unceiled carved wagon roof, and there is an octagonal font.

Local climate

Church of St Peter the Poor Fisherman receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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