Church of Saint Peter
CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, CHURCH AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161055
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, CHURCH AVENUE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1161055
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT PETER, CHURCH AVENUE
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 SAINT PETER, CHURCH AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North East Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Humberston
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 31094 05278
Details
HUMBERSIDE CLEETHORPES 5263
TA 30 NW HUMBERSTON CHURCH AVENUE (south side) 4/27 4.1.67 Church of Saint Peter
* GV II Parish church. C15 tower; nave and chancel of 1720-2. Nave parapet altered 1774. Interior alterations of 1897. Tower repaired in 1929, nave and chancel re-roofed in 1931. Tower of squared ironstone with limestone ashlar dressings and ashlar facing to upper section. Nave and chancel of red brick in English bond with plinth of re-used medieval masonry. Lead roof. West tower with west entrance, 4-bay nave/chancel. C20 church rooms of no special interest adjoin south side. 3-stage tower: moulded plinth, clasping buttresses with off-sets, stair-lighting slits to south-west corner; moulded string courses between stages. Pointed moulded door of 2 orders with hoodmould beneath moulded stringcourse, pointed 3-light west window with partly restored Perpendicular tracery and hoodmould. Second stage has pointed 2-light traceried window with hoodmould and headstops. Pointed 3- light belfry openings with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds; moulded stringcourse, angle gargoyles, coped embattled parapet with crocketed angle pinnacles. Nave/chancel: plinth (incorporating 2 fragments of C10 - Cll cross-shaft with interlace carving) with moulded brick cap; angle pilasters. 3 round-headed windows and single circular windows to north and south with 3-course brick band and stone-coped parapet above. 'Blocked opening beneath circular window to north-west. Wide elliptically-arched east window with small oculus in gable above. All windows with original iron glazing bars and leaded lights. Pairs of down pipes to north and south sides with cast lead rainwater heads inscribed "H x C". Inscribed ashlar slab 1774 incorporated in east wall records burial in February 1720/21 of John Nash "late of London master Carpenter of this Church". Interior: small painted chamfered arch to tower staircase with heavy oak door. Partly-exposed tall pointed double-chamfered tower arch on octagonal responds with moulded capitals and bases. Nave open to chancel. Elliptically-arched nave west door with keyed architrave and cornice above; pair of fluted pilasters flanking altar and east window. Fielded panelling to nave and chancel made from C18 box pews in 1890s. Very fine marble wall monument to Matthew Humberston of first half of C18, attributed to Rysbach or Sir Henry Cheere: Corinthian columns flanked by foliate scrolls and carrying open pediment surmounted by urn with garlands, over carved arms and arched niche containing half-size female mourner leaning on tablet bearing Humberston's portrait in relief, lower panel with carved scallops and scrolled brackets bearing inscription to Humberston who "was early advanced to Several places of Trust and profit in the Custom House whereby he acquired an ample Fortune with great honour and reputation...... He gave £1,000 to rebuild this church, £500 to build a School house and 6 Almshouses..... and directed £300 to be layd out on a Monument in memory of him." Fine marble wall tablet to members of Humberston family, the latest being Thomas Humberston (died 1755), "in Conformity to whose will this monument was erected": inscription with pilastered surround and moulded cornice carrying carved arms and urn with figures of Three Graces in relief against reddish-grey obelisk. C18 painted Royal Arms and hatchments with Humberston arms in tower and nave. N Pevsner and J Harris, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, 1978, 278-9. A E Kirkby, Humberston; The Story of a Village, 1953, 36-56.
Listing NGR: TA3109405278
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 164393
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kirkby, A E, Humberston The Story of a Village, (1953), 36-56
Pevsner, N, Harris, J, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire, (1978), 278-9
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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