Church of St Peter and Front Wall with Piers and Railings is a Grade II listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1986. Church.
Church of St Peter and Front Wall with Piers and Railings
- WRENN ID
- spare-loggia-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- Stroud MP: Dr Simon Opher (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and Front Wall with Piers and Railings, Fretherne with Saul
- OS grid reference
- SO 750 104
- Coordinates
- 51.792, -2.36366
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter, built in 1854 by Francis Niblett, is a small Anglican church located in Fretherne with Saul. It is constructed of marlstone with ashlar dressings and features a decorative tile roof with coped verges and cross finials. The church is designed in a Romanesque Italianate style, comprising a nave with an apsidal chancel, a small south vestry, and a north porch that rises to a tower. The main part of the church has five bays, each with single round-headed lights, and shallow stepped buttresses between them. The tower includes small angle buttresses on the lower stage and a single offset on the upper stage, which has two tall louvred belfry lights and a sprocketed pyramidal roof with a corbel table. The porch features a plain round-headed moulded archway with a single slit lancet above it. A large two-light west window is adorned with chevron moulding.
Inside, the church has a five-bay nave supported by reverse arch-braced collar beam trusses, with a stencilled and painted ceiling and apse. All original fittings remain intact. The front wall includes four cylindrical stone gatepiers on the north side, with the inner two positioned opposite the north porch. These piers have plain moulded bases and capitals topped with conical caps. Between the piers are trefoil-headed tall railings set into a coped shallow ashlar wall, featuring urn-like finials approximately every 2-3 meters. The railings rise between the inner piers to form curved-headed double gates, with a total length of about 40 meters.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and Front Wall with Piers and Railings receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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