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
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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