Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131360
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1131360
- Date first listed:
- 18-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cleasby
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24919 13074
Details
CLEASBY CLEASBY NZ 21 SW 4/9 Church of St Peter 18.3.68
GV II
Church. Rebuilt, incorporating some earlier fabric, in 1828, restored and refitted 1878. Sandstone ashlar, Westmorland slate roofs. 4-bay nave with west porch and bellcote, 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Nave: stepped buttresses at ends and centre; two 2-light pointed-arched windows with Y-tracery and hoodmoulds; eaves band; ashlar coping; 2-light gabled west belfry. North side of older fabric, cobbled, and with some carved stones; 2 matching windows. West end: stepped buttresses flanking gabled porch with board leaved door in pointed-arched opening under hoodmould and similar inner doorway having Y-traceried, leaded overlight, band at eaves level; blind quatrefoil in gable. Chancel: 1 matching window, eaves band, ashlar coping to right; 3-light matching east window. Interior: 4-centred double- chamfered chancel arch with label on octagonal responds; early C20 ashlar low chancel screen incorporating pulpit and reading desk, all pierced with Gothic tracery; ashlar walls to chancel; scissor-truss roofs; retooled C13 font on newer plinth, having square bowl with roll moulding at angles and edges, and on each face a quatrefoil; on south wall of nave, tablet recording augmentation of perpetual curacy under Queen Anne's Bounty in 1816, also by John Robinson, Lord Bishop of London, who was born in Cleasby; in south window of chancel, C18 yellow enamelled glass, formerly in the west window of Bristol Cathedral, inserted there in 1710 in memory of John Robinson, Bishop of Bristol, and moved to Cleasby in 1906. VCH i, pp 158- 159.
Listing NGR: NZ2491913074
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 322648
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 150-4
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 123
Bulmer, T, History Topography and Directory of North Yorkshire, (1890), 358
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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