Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Lake District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 January 1991. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- solemn-lantern-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lake District National Park
- Constituency
- Westmorland and Lonsdale MP: Tim Farron (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 January 1991
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Martindale, Westmorland and Furness
- OS grid reference
- NY 436 191
- Coordinates
- 54.56441, -2.87362
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a church built between 1880 and 1882 by J B Cory. It is constructed from slate rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building consists of a nave and chancel with a south vestry. It has coped gables and lancet windows. The three-bay nave includes later deep weathered buttresses; the south side has paired lancets, while the eastern bay features a single lancet. The north side mirrors this layout and has a gabled porch to the west, which includes an entrance with one order and an inner chamfered arch. Above this entrance is a quatrefoil with the letters "AoX" and the date "1897". The west end has lancets flanking buttresses and a gabled bell cote with a louvred trefoil-headed opening. The chancel features a gabled vestry with a two-light window and a rounded under relieving arch, as well as a lean-to canopy over the west entrance. The east side has three stepped lancets and a basement entrance, with additional lancets on the south and triple lancets on the north.
Inside, the roofs have deep arch-braced collars, and the windows feature segmental-pointed relieving arches. The plain round font has dog-tooth moulding and three coronae. The double-chamfered chancel arch dies into the jambs. The interior includes a traceried pulpit, reading desk, stalls, altar rail, and east panelling with a reredos under a projecting cornice. A recess to the south contains a 17th-century style cupboard presented in 1954. The chancel's east window and the lancet to the north have late 19th-century decorative glass, while other windows showcase a notable collection of stained glass by Jane Gray from the 1970s.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,320 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 63 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 98% of listed buildings. Of these, 38 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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