Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 December 1985. Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- strange-string-plover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Constituency
- Morecambe and Lunesdale MP: Lizzi Collinge (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 December 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Leck, Lancaster
- OS grid reference
- SD 643 765
- Coordinates
- 54.18388, -2.54834
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a church built between 1878 and 1879 by the architectural firm Paley & Austin, which was rebuilt by Austin & Paley in 1915 following a fire. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The church includes a west tower with a spire, a nave that has a north aisle and a south porch, a lower chancel, and a vestry.
The tower consists of two stages with battered walls, a plinth, two string courses, and an octagonal slated spire set back behind a solid parapet. Each of the bell openings contains one cinquefoiled light. The west window has three lights beneath a pointed head with Perpendicular tracery. The south wall of the nave has two bays and features windows with four elliptically-headed lights under a flat head. A buttress on the right separates the nave from the chancel, which has windows with three and one trefoiled lights. The south porch is made of timber and has a doorhead that is carved with a depressed ogee. The inner stone doorway is moulded and has a pointed arch. The east window has a segmental head with a hood and consists of eight trefoiled lights.
Inside, the church has a five-bay arcade with pointed arches that are chamfered in two orders, supported by round piers with moulded caps. There is an additional arch on the north side of the chancel that leads to an organ chamber. Both the tower arch and chancel arch are pointed. The open timber roof features trusses with arch-braced king posts that rise from collars, along with common rafters, collars, and straight braces. The font is octagonal, made of sandstone, and has carved decoration.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,330 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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