Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 November 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- lesser-soffit-hyssop
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Constituency
- Wells and Mendip Hills MP: Tessa Munt (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter, High Street, North Wootton
- OS grid reference
- ST 563 418
- Coordinates
- 51.17378, -2.62533
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is an Anglican parish church located in North Wootton. It dates from the 14th and 15th centuries and was restored in the 19th century, which included the rebuilding of the chancel. The church is constructed from coursed and squared rubble, featuring lead sheeting and slate roofs, with coped verges topped with cruciform finials.
The structure includes a nave, a chancel with an organ loft, a south porch, and a west tower. The tower is embattled and has diagonal buttresses and pinnacles, along with 2-light bell chamber windows that have louvres. The nave consists of two bays, while the chancel is smaller, also with two bays. There is a rood stair turret on the south side of the nave, which has a lancet window.
The porch has an ashlar frontage and diagonal buttresses, and it features a sundial. The outer door opening is shafted, and to the right of this is a stoup. The interior is plastered with tile floors and has 19th-century wagon roofs. The arches leading to the chancel and tower are in the Perpendicular style.
Notable interior features include 15th-century benches, some of which have carved ends, and additional 15th-century carvings on the choir stalls. There is a Norman tub font with cable banding and an 18th-century cover. The church also contains a rood stair and remnants of a 17th-century communion table. The royal arms displayed are dated 1826, and there is some 19th-century stained glass in the chancel. Additionally, there is a late 18th-century tablet and two detached 17th-century tablets located in the porch, along with a late 19th-century organ.
Local climate
Church of St Peter receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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