Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building in the North Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1950. A C15 Church.

Church of St Peter and St Paul

WRENN ID
forbidden-chapel-thistle
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
North Northamptonshire
Constituency
Kettering MP: Rosie Wrighting (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 February 1950
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Peter and St Paul, Sheep Street, Kettering Town
OS grid reference
SP 867 784
Coordinates
52.3969, -0.72663
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a spacious church, primarily from the 15th century, featuring an exceptionally fine west steeple. The structure includes a chancel, a nave with a clerestory, aisles, north and south chapels, and a north porch. There is a 19th-century southeast vestry, and the north doorway and east end of the chancel date back to around 1300. Above the porch, there is a room. Inside, notable features include a piscina, sedilia, and a wall painting of Saint Roch in the north aisle. The south chapel window contains fragments of medieval stained glass, and there is a brass with figures from 1630.

Local climate

Church of St Peter and St Paul sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% 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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