CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1133457
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1133457
Date first listed:: 10-Sep-1954
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Addingham
National Grid Reference:: SE 08522 49696

Details

SE04NE ADDINGHAM C.P. CHURCH STREET 10.9.54 (north side off)

4/56 Church of St. Peter

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Parish Church. Late C15 rebuild of Norman church, traces of which remain inside interior of tower (re-used stone with chevron decoration), late medieval timber roof to nave, probably contemporary with Tudor north aisle; west tower and south nave wall rebuilt 1757 (date on the tower)-1760 by Joshua Brear, a local mason, (Church Minute Book, Sheepscar Library, Leeds), chancel restored 1875. Dressed stone, stone slate roof. Nave, chancel, north aisle, vestry and west tower. Classical except north aisle which is Perpendicular. Plinth, rusticated quoins. 2-stage tower: 1st stage has window with architrave, impost and semicircular head with keystone and Gothick glazing and clock in 2 faces. Band separates the stages. South face bears date below 2-light belfry. Parapet, crocketed pinnacles. 3-bay nave and 2-bay chancel with lower roof all with semicircular-arched windows with keystones, imposts and architraves. 2 doorways with Gibbs surround and triple keystone. North aisle has 4 bays of 3-light chamfered mullioned windows with arched lights and sunken spandrels articulated by offset buttresses. Victorian east end has 3-light window with panel tracery and 2-light window to vestry under separate roof. Coped gables with kneelers, that to chancel surmounted by carved cross.

Interior: Nave has 3-bay Tudor arcade with octagonal piers lacking capitals and 4-centred chamfered arches. Chancel arch is 4-centred on square piers. A further bay to aisle east of chancel arch is similar. Good 5-bay nave roof. King-post trusses with stop-chamfered principals, curved braces to ridge, moulded tie-beams, 2 have carved bosses. Tie-beam supported on stubby wooden corbel with curved brace. Aisle has lean-to roof of 10 bays, straight principals with roll-moulded edges. 2 trenched stop-chamfered purlins. West gallery carried on turned wooden columns. Semi-octagonal baptistry set under gallery retains C18 font of baluster shape. Chancel has C19 3-bay arched- braced hammer-beam boarded roof which retains its original stencil decoration. Several wall monuments to the Cuncliffe family of Farfield Hall (q.v.) the best by Sherwood (Derby) to Eliza Parr, 1809: the crown decorated with mourning figure and draped urn, the apron with swag either side of inscription. Good fragment of a late Saxon cross has two figures set under a circle in which is set a cross carved in relief.

N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding (London) 1979), p72.

Listing NGR: SE0852249696

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Sources

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Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.