---
title: "St Peter & St Paul, Belton"
description: "Located in Belton, Lincolnshire. Built c.1200 and c.1400; chancel 1721; memorial chapel 1818. Diocese of Lincoln. Grade I. Perpendicular Gothic style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Lincolnshire","Belton","Grade I","Perpendicular Gothic","Jeffry Wyatville","Belton House"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/st-peter-st-paul-belton"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T01:17:19.703Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:32:57.381Z"
location: "Belton, Lincolnshire"
country: "England"
county: "Lincolnshire"
town: "Belton"
address: "Main Street, Belton, Lincolnshire, NG32 2LW"
postcode: "NG32 2LW"
built: "c.1200 and c.1400; chancel 1721; memorial chapel 1818"
architect: "Jeffry Wyatville (memorial chapel, west door and nave parapets, c.1815–20)"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["Peter","Paul"]
diocese: "Lincoln"
grade: "I"
style: "Perpendicular Gothic"
materials: "Ashlar and coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings; steep pitched plain tile roofs"
website: "https://beltonchurch.uk/"
openingHours: "Open April to October: Wednesday to Sunday 10.30am to 5pm. Access from Belton House Gardens."
parish: "Belton"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1298472"
gridReference: "SK 929 395"
accessNotes: "Open-season access is from Belton House gardens."
---

# St Peter & St Paul, Belton

St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I parish church on Main Street, Belton, Lincolnshire, in the Diocese of Lincoln, and since 1638 the estate church of the Brownlows of Belton House.

## Overview

Historic England records a church mainly of about 1200 and 1400, with a chancel of 1721 (altered in the early nineteenth century), a south porch of 1775, a memorial chapel of 1818, and a late nineteenth-century vestry and restoration. Jeffry Wyatville designed the memorial chapel, west door, nave parapets and some interior features around 1815–20. The fabric is ashlar and coursed squared stone with ashlar dressings and steep pitched plain tile roofs. The plan comprises chancel, nave with clerestory, north aisle, memorial chapel, south porch and west tower. The nave has two-light Perpendicular clerestory windows and a crenellated parapet.

Wikipedia and the listing note an outstanding collection of Brownlow and Cust monuments by sculptors including William Stanton, Antonio Canova, Sir Henry Cheere, John Bacon the Elder, William Theed the Younger, Sir Richard Westmacott, Carlo Marochetti and Nina Cust. The churchyard includes the chest tomb of Adelbert Cust, 5th Baron Brownlow, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens. In the open season the church is reached from Belton House gardens.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1298472](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1298472)
- [Belton Church](https://beltonchurch.uk/)
- [St Peter and St Paul's Church, Belton (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter_and_St_Paul%27s_Church,_Belton)