Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, HELPERTHORPE TO SHERBURN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149656
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HELPERTHORPE TO SHERBURN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1149656
- Date first listed:
- 10-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HELPERTHORPE TO SHERBURN ROAD
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, HELPERTHORPE TO SHERBURN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Luttons
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 95277 70411
Details
LUTTONS HELPERTHORPE TO SHERBURN SE 97 SE ROAD Helperthorpe 10/30 Church of St Peter 10.10.66 GV II Church. 1872-75 by G E Street. North aisle and vestry added, and some alteration, in 1893 by Temple Moore. For Sir Tatton Sykes. Sandstone ashlar on chamfered plinth, with tiled roof and pierced cresting. West tower, 4-bay nave, north aisle and south porch; higher chancel and vestry. 3-stage tower on moulded plinth with half-hexagonal vice to south east. 3- light west window,with cinquefoil tracery, beneath 2 trefoil-headed lights. Pointed bell openings beneath leaf-stopped hoodmoulds to each face, of paired cusped lights with pierced shutters. Belfry string course. Low broach spire with bands and gablets, and cockerel weather-vane. Vice has sloped top and statue of St Peter set in niche beneath gabled canopy. West end of aisle has angle buttress and gabled 3-light window beneath continuous hoodmould. Gabled porch has continuous moulded pointed arch of 2 orders beneath coved hoodmould. 3 stepped cusped lancets over eaves level string course. Two 2-light windows east of porch. Further east broad shouldered buttress on moulded chamfered plinth. On north side, pointed door in filleted, roll-moulded arch, and three 2-light windows. End and intermediate buttresses. Moulded eaves band and plain parapet. Chancel south side has gabled buttress and two 2-light windows. Vestry added on north side with square-headed north door, moulded eaves band and plain parapet. 2 square-headed east windows of 2 lights beneath stepped eaves band. Small 2-light window in chancel wall, and stack at base of roof. Chancel east end has dwarf central gabled buttress beneath pointed window of 5 cusped lancets. Moulded sill band encircles church. Window tracery is geometrical. Coped gables, and gable crosses to nave, chancel and porch. Interior: tall, narrow tower arch of 3 orders, the inner chamfered and dying into the sides, the outer 2 roll-moulded and continuing as side shafts with annulets. North arcade of pointed arches of 2 orders on clustered columns with moulded capitals. Wide, double-chamfered chancel arch dying into the sides. Sedilia and piscina. Circular font on clustered columns and wood cover with fine wrought-iron work. Carved stone pulpit. Fine carved stone altar-piece at east end of aisle, of 3 crocketed ogee-arched niches each containing a sculpted figure. Stone arcaded chancel altar-piece with leafy frieze. Low chancel screen of pointed wrought iron. Carved pews by Temple Moore. Glass is by Burlison and Grylls. Roofs. Nave: arch-braced, collar- beam roof with cusped wind-braced purlins. Aisle: corbelled arch braces with centre bosses and moulded ridge piece. Porch: pointed tunnel vault.
Listing NGR: SE9527770411
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 329370
- 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.
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