St Peter's Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Torfaen local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 February 1995. Church.

St Peter's Church

WRENN ID
outer-hearth-moss
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Torfaen
Constituency
Torfaen MP: Nick Thomas-Symonds (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 February 1995
Type
Church
Address
St Peter's Church, Blaenavon
OS grid reference
SO 251 087
Coordinates
51.77265, -3.08659
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

St Peter's Church is a Grade II* listed building in the Neo-Gothic style, constructed from coursed quarry-faced stone with dressed stone heads above the pointed arched openings, and features slate roofs. The church has a four-storey west tower that includes band courses, a battlemented parapet, and a pyramidal spire. The belfry openings are louvered, and the west face features an ocular window above a modern UPVC window. There are doorways on the north and south sides, along with four windows on each side of the main body of the nave, which have Y-shaped glazing bars over six square panes. The chancel has two windows and an iron-framed east end window topped with a crucifix finial on the gable parapet. A vestry lean-to is located on the north side, featuring a pointed-arched door and a window on the west.

Inside, the church has an aisled nave supported by a gallery carried on cast-iron pillars, and a decorative wooden panelled ceiling. The baptistry at the west end contains the original cast iron font designed to resemble stone. In the vestibule, wooden stairs lead up to the galleries, and wooden pews are retained throughout the church.

Local climate

St Peter's Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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