Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II* listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1954. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- fossil-doorway-coral
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- Daventry MP: Stuart Andrew (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1954
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Old Road, Scaldwell
- OS grid reference
- SP 768 725
- Coordinates
- 52.34588, -0.873
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a church dating from the 12th to 14th centuries, with a 19th-century restoration by Williams, Slater and Gillett. It is constructed of regular coursed and squared coursed lias stone, with ashlar dressings. The roof is covered in aluminium and lead. The church comprises an aisled nave and chancel, and a west tower.
The south aisle is two bays wide. The right-hand bay is likely a 19th-century reconstruction, featuring a double lancet window and a doorway to its right, and a 3-light east window with intersecting tracery. The left-hand bay dates to the 14th century and has a 3-light Perpendicular window. A gabled porch with a double chamfered arch is located on the left, and a single lancet window is placed to the west. The north aisle, also two bays wide, has a 2-light window with intersecting tracery to the left and a 3-light Perpendicular window to the right. A 3-light Perpendicular east window and a 2-light west window with intersecting tracery are also present. A blank lancet is positioned to the left. The tower has large ashlar angle and clasping buttresses. The roofs are gabled, with ashlar parapets and finials. The chancel features a 5-light Perpendicular east window with a small quatrefoil, a gabled parapet, and a finial. The north nave clerestory has three square windows with quatrefoils, an ashlar cornice, and a gabled roof with an ashlar abutment parapet and a bellcote at the apex.
The west tower is from the 12th century, with three stages. It includes single lancets on the south and west faces of the first stage. The recessed upper stage has 2-light round-headed bell chamber openings in round-headed openings with simple shafts, and is topped with a plain ashlar cornice and parapets with pinnacles at the corners.
Inside, the chancel has a two-bay north arcade with double chamfered pointed arches resting on octagonal piers. A single double chamfered arch leads south, and there are double chamfered chancel and side chapel arches. The two-bay nave arcade has double chamfered pointed arches on octagonal piers, with the north piers being taller. A plain pointed tower arch is blocked. The roofs are 19th century, and the chancel ceiling panels are painted. Stained glass is in the east window and south aisle. A 14th-century piscina is located in the south aisle, and a 19th-century ashlar chancel screen is present. The font probably dates to the 13th century, featuring a bowl supported on a cluster of shafts.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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