Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178132
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2002-08-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/06908/23
- Rights:
- © Mr Peter J Ellis. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1178132
- Date first listed:
- 24-Nov-1965
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- North West Leicestershire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Swepstone
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 36785 10565
Details
SWEPSTONE CHURCH STREET (west side) SK 31 SE 5/96 Church of St. Peter 24.11.65 II* GV Church of C14, C15 and C19. W tower, nave with aisles, and chancel. Mainly of C14, C15 clerestory, tower cased 1842 with ashlar, chancel rebuilt in 1869 and S porch in 1870. Coursed rubble and ashlar. Plain tiled roof with stone coped gables to chancel and porch, battlements to nave, aisles and tower. Buttresses and angle buttresses with set-offs overall. Windows mainly have hood-moulds with carved head label stops. Tower of 2 stages with Perp lights to belfry, W window with cusped Y tracery, small W door and pinnacles. N aisle W window with Intersected tracery, otherwise renewed Curvilinear. Blocked N door. S aisle E window with Intersected tracery, otherwise Y. S door with hood-mould. Curvilinear style chancel windows. Interior: 4 bay arcades with double chamfered arches, outer dying into wall. Restored low-pitched roof of 4 bays: cambered moulded tie beams, wall-pieces and braces on renewed stone corbels. Flat-topped 2-light clerestory windows with Perp tracery. Chancel with boarded arched roof. C19 pews, boxed in aisles. Finely carved choir stalls of 1886 and pulpit of 1887. Organ with painted front pipes. C19 stained glass in E and SE windows with NE window by Powell, Highgate, c1930. C17-C19 wall monuments, alabaster tomb chest with effigy of William Humfrey of 1591 and mediaeval effigy of a Lady, wearing a wimple, on embattled arcaded tomb chest decorated with shields within quatrefoils. Small cusp-headed niche in S aisle.
Listing NGR: SK3678510565
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 187988
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 04-Jun-2026 at 11:36:49.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.