Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 September 1960. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Peter
- WRENN ID
- proud-belfry-heron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Powys
- Constituency
- Brecon, Radnor and Cwm Tawe MP: David Chadwick (LD)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 18 September 1960
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Peter, Llanbedr Painscastle, Painscastle
- OS grid reference
- SO 141 463
- Coordinates
- 52.1092, -3.25509
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Peter is a Grade II* listed building featuring a low nave with a chancel that has a lower roof line. It includes a south porch and a west open bellcote housing two small bells. The structure is built from rubble stone and covered with slate roofs. A priest's door is located under an elliptical head, and the chancel has 3-light windows with Perpendicular tracery in the local style, which have been reset in the rebuilt west end. The south wall of the chancel and the east end of the nave feature two-light cusped windows, while the north wall of the nave has a wide, crude trefoil-headed light. An exceptional feature at the east end of the chancel is a small cusped light under a square head, positioned high in the apex, leaving a blank east wall that was presumably originally intended for a reredos inside. The porch includes a stoup and a chamfered south door.
The churchyard is sub-circular and contains some chest tombs. The nave roof dates from the 19th century, while the chancel boasts a 15th-century barrel roof with thin moulded ribs. Inside, there is a plain round-headed plastered chancel arch and a circular font on a cylindrical base. The floors are flagged with some memorial stones, and there are several 18th and 19th-century wall tablets in the chancel. The furnishings were designed by Evins.
Local climate
Church of St Peter sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,020 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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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