Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the South Hams local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- fading-bronze-shade
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Hams
- Constituency
- South Devon MP: Caroline Voaden (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Buckland-Tout-Saints
- OS grid reference
- SX 757 460
- Coordinates
- 50.30151, -3.74652
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is an Anglican parish church located in Buckland-Tout-Saints, built in 1778 for John Henry Southcote of Buckland-Tout-Saints House. The church is constructed of rubble with slate roofs and features a west tower, a nave that is continuous with the chancel, north and south transepts, and a north porch. There is also a lean-to vestry on the south side of the tower. The windows are designed in a 15th-century style.
The west tower is divided into two stages and has diagonal buttresses that rise to half-height. It is accented with a string course leading to the bell stage, which has large louvred pointed openings on each face. The tower is topped with battlements that are set forward on a continuous corbel. A square stack is attached to the south-west corner of the nave.
The church features two-light Perpendicular style windows with drip stones, located on the north and south sides of the nave, as well as on the north and south transept walls and the chancel. The chancel's east end has a three-light window. Diagonal buttresses support the transepts and the east end of the church. The porch has a pointed arch altar and inner doors.
Inside, the church has a tiled floor, a simple coved plaster ceiling, and plastered walls. The sanctuary is raised by one step and features a black and white floor. The seating consists of good simple pews.
Local climate
Church of St Peter 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 95% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% 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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