Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 17 October 1985. A Victorian Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
swift-tallow-soot
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Somerset
Constituency
Glastonbury and Somerton MP: Sarah Dyke (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
17 October 1985
Type
Church
Period
Victorian
Address
Church of St Peter, High Street, Lydford-On-Fosse
OS grid reference
ST 564 318
Coordinates
51.08458, -2.62278
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter is an Anglican parish church built in 1846 by B. Ferrey on an earlier site. It features coursed and squared lias rubble with Doulting stone dressings, stone tile roofs, and coped verges topped with cruciform finials. The church includes a nave with a south porch, a north aisle, a chancel with a north vestry, and a west tower, all designed in an archaeologically correct Perpendicular style.

The tower has set-back buttresses, an embattled parapet with pinnacles, prominent gargoyles, a small south stair turret, and features 2-light bell-chamber windows along with a 3-light west window. The nave is buttressed and has an embattled parapet with 3-light windows, while the north aisle is also buttressed, with an embattled parapet and 3-light windows. The chancel has two bays, a pierced parapet with pinnacles, and a 4-light east window. The porch is buttressed and has paired wrought-iron dog gates.

Inside, the church has a lofty plastered interior with elaborate hammer-beam roofs. There is a 4-bay arcade leading to the north aisle, with piers that feature 4-hollows mouldings, possibly reused from a 15th-century structure, although much restored. The church contains a plain 15th-century octagonal font with a niche on each face of its base, 19th-century pews, a 19th-century lectern shaped like a carved eagle, and a 19th-century pulpit. There are also some 19th-century metal plaques on the walls with pious texts, a 17th-century chest, and a small 17th-century communion table. Additionally, there are five 19th-century tables made by Reeves of Bath, Wood of Bristol, and Tyley of Bristol, along with 19th-century stained glass, particularly the east window designed by Wailes in 1852.

Local climate

Church of St Peter receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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