The Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Weobley

Heritage listing

Details SO 4051 - 4151; 14/129 WEOBLEY CP, CHURCH ROAD (west side) The Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul 02.09.66 GV I Parish church. C13, incorporating some C12 fragments, partly rebuilt C14 with detached tower, tower attached in C15. Spire partly rebuilt in late C17 after a lightning strike. Church restored 1865. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings under a stone tile and tile roof. Nave with north and south aisles, tower to north-west corner, and chancel with a north vestry. Tower built in mid-C14 of five storeys, undivided externally, capped by an octagonal spire. It has a deep plinth and a crenellated parapet with tall crocketted pinnacles at the angles, the faces of the pinnacles being traceried. The east, north and west walls have a recess with window of three trefoiled lights with tracery under the two-centred head. Only the central light is pierced to form a window, the side lights having a bracket for statues. The spire is supported at the bottom by flying buttresses from the pinnacles. The side walls of the spire each have a window of two ogee trefoiled lights under a two-centred head, set in a crocketted gable with side pinnacles. South aisle of C13 is of four bays, that to east carried up to form a C19 gable containing a rose window over two lancets. To west of this, a C19 window of three stepped lancets, then the early C14 stone porch with a further C19 window to west of two trefoiled lights under a two-centred head. The south porch, raised in the C16, has a two-centred outer arch of two chamfered orders. The side walls each have a lancet window. The roof is low-pitched C16 painted timber construction. The south door is re-set C12 with a semi-circular arch of two moulded orders, the inner continued down the jambs, the outer with chevron ornament resting

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.