Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115540
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1115540
- Date first listed:
- 30-Mar-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, MAIN 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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 44114 47819
Details
SE44NW WALTON MAIN STREET LS23 (north side)
2/132 Church of St. Peter 30.3.66
GV II*
Church. C12 origin; mostly mid C14; restored 1890-91 by W. M. Fawcett. Coursed, squared magnesian limestone, graduated green slate roofs. West tower, 3-bay nave with south porch, narrower 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Tower: chamfered plinth and offsets; no buttresses. West side has small lancet window beneath square-headed, chamfered window; offset below belfry stage having south clock and square-headed, 2-light openings in double- chamfered surrounds. Corbel table and cornice below Perpendicular embattled parapet with 4 crocketed pinnacles. Nave: chamfered plinth; offset buttresses at each end and another with mass dial between square-headed windows of 2 ogee lights beneath hoodmould with old head-carved stops. Later porch to left has side buttresses flanking a segmental arch; south doorway within has quadrant-moulded arch with hoodmould; stone slate roof. Nave has C19 ashlar gable copings with east cross. On north side is a blocked, shouldered-lintelled doorway and to left is a buttress flanked by windows as south but without hoodmoulds. Chancel: blocked priests' door with shouldered lintel; small window on left with similar head; large 3-light window to right with reticulated tracery beneath pointed arch and old hoodmould with head- carved stops. Offset buttresses flank a double-chamfered, pointed, 5-light east window having renewed sandstone mullions, reticulated tracery and hoodmould. Gable, rebuilt 1890-1, has ashlar copings and cross. North vestry of 1890-1: shouldered lintels to windows and north door. Interior: Cl2 doorway into tower has chamfered impost to plain round arch. Tall chamfered arch over south door. Chancel: moulded impost to double- chamfered, pointed chancel arch; squint on north side. Tomb recess in north wall of chancel with cusped, crocketed ogee canopy and pinnacle. Small, moulded octagonal stone font, C14. Pulpit: C17 restored c1890; wooden with nulled frieze and Gothic Revival panels. Painted Royal Coat of Arms on west all with initials 'G.R.', 3 bells of 1500-1520 (not inspected), Monuments: within the chancel recess is a C14 effigy of a knight with hands clasped in prayer, his feet on a lion and his head on a helm. Above is a wall monument to Nicholas Fairfax (d.1703): winged cherub beneath inscribed panel flanked by drops and with enriched segmental pediment crowned by shield of arms. H. Speight,Lower Wharfedale, 1902, pp. 391-396.
Listing NGR: SE4411447819
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342055
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Speight, H, Lower Wharfedale, (1902), 391-396
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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