Church of St Peter
Church of St Peter, Dalby
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1150761
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St Peter, Dalby
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- Date:
- 2007-08-17
- Reference:
- IOE01/16711/31
- Rights:
- © Mr David H. Garbutt. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1150761
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St Peter, Dalby
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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, Dalby
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Dalby-cum-Skewsby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 63722 71212
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 June 2025 to reformat the text to current standards
SE 67 SW
7/43
DALBY-CUM-SKEWSBY
DALBY
Church of St Peter
17.5.60
I
Church. Early C12, C15, C16 and C19. Sandstone, Welsh slate and lead roofs. Three bay nave with western bellcote and south porch; two bay chancel. Nave: C12; rubble; from left, stepped diagonal buttress; C19 porch of open timber-frame on low stone wall masking round-arched south doorway of one order with imposts; two two-light windows with C19 Y-tracery; coping; west end has C15 flat-headed window of two trefoiled ogee-headed lights, with hood mould, and C19 two-light belfry; north side C15, of coursed stone, blocked continuously-moulded chamfer-stopped Tudor-arched doorway, and high-level single-light window towards east end and stepped buttress.
Chancel: C15, coursed stone; stepped plinth; stepped buttresses to left and centre; each bay has a C16 low single-light flat-headed window, rebated and with iron stanchion and saddle bars; below left window a worn shield with crudely-carved head; water-spout from eaves of first bay; parapet with deep crenellations; east end has diagonal buttresses and C16 window of three-lights matching those on south, and on each jamb a carved stone, with the crossed keys of St Peter to left, and the Instruments of the Passion to the right, also a worn stone above, each with a dripstone, and with a worn shield with crudely carved head further to the left of the window; north side has two stepped buttresses and a water-spout in each bay, that to east a gargoyle.
Interior: early C12 chancel arch on imposts, and facing nave to left, a pointed-arched niche; interior of chancel is of unplastered ashlar stone, rising unchecked into a pointed tunnel vault; chamfered segmental rere arches to windows; four C15 oak tie beams in nave; on north wall of nave, fragment of black-letter painted inscription in decorative border, also white marble memorial tablet to Rev Thomas Lumley d.1805 set on coloured marble mount; on south wall of nave, aedicule monument to Alan Ascough, Armiger, who died in 1675 aged 85 years after a marriage of 63 years to his wife Ann, the Corinthian columns carry a steep open pediment font a large hemispherical bowl on a C19 stem and base; high on the west wall, the royal coat of arms of George "IIII"; at the west end of the north wall of the nave, in a screened vestry, a Benefaction Board; on south wall of chancel, traces of painted lettering and a cast-iron safe door with Gothic tracery. The fortified form of the chancel is most unusual. VCH ii, pp 126-127.
Listing NGR: SE6371771213
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332752
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 126-127
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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