Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Torridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 October 1960. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
tangled-outpost-willow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Torridge
Constituency
Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
4 October 1960
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Peter, Peters Marland
OS grid reference
SS 478 134
Coordinates
50.90078, -4.1655
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter is a parish church located in Petersmarland. Some fabric from the 15th century survives in the tower, but the church was mainly rebuilt in 1868. It features stone rubble walls with granite quoins on the tower and has a gable-ended slate roof. The layout includes a nave, north and south aisles, and a south porch built in 1865, while the west tower dates back to the 15th century but appears to have been partially rebuilt.

The exterior showcases a three-stage battlemented tower with obelisk finials. There are two likely 19th-century buttresses extending up to the second stage of the west wall. The belfry has two-light trefoiled openings, and the west wall features a 19th-century three-light window with intersecting tracery. A 15th-century granite west doorway has roll and hollow moulding. The north aisle includes two Decorated style windows with three and four lights, along with a single trefoiled light at the west end. There is a lean-to vestry at the angle between the aisle and chancel, and the east window is a three-light Decorated style window, with a similar two-light window on the south side of the chancel. The south aisle has an intersecting tracery window at its east end, with the others being of the Decorated style. The south porch features a steeply pitched roof and a four-centered stone arch doorway.

Inside, there is a re-used granite south doorway with a Tudor arch, roll and hollow moulding, and ball stops. The church has three bay arcades supported by slender columns with small capitals, and each arch has a deep hoodmould. The interior also includes a modern square font made of freestone, tiled floors, and a pulpit and choir stalls made from simple carved woodwork.

Local climate

Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 15 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 85% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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