Church of St Peter

CHURCH OF ST PETER, LANGTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173623
Date first listed:
04-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, LANGTON ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1173623
Date first listed:
04-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of St Peter
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, LANGTON 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST PETER, LANGTON ROAD

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

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Norton-on-Derwent
National Grid Reference:
SE 79427 71029

Details

SE 7971 NORTON-ON-DERWENT LANGTON ROAD (east side) 9/33 Church of St Peter 4.5.67 II Church. 1889-91. By C Hodgson Fowler. Chiselled sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings; slate roof. West tower; 6-bay, aisled nave and clerestory; south porch; chancel, vestry, organ chamber and south chapel. 4-stage buttressed tower on plinth has west door beneath pointed head- stopped hood-mould. 4-light window with reticulated tracery and chamfered sill above with a stopped ogee-arched hood-mould. Bracketed ledge to third stage with statue of St Peter beneath crocketed canopy. 2-light mullion and transom bell openings beneath crocketed ogee arches to each face, over corbelled chamfered band. Corbel table beneath embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles and waterspouts. Opening to gabled south porch is a 2- centred arch on half octagonal shafts with a continuous hood-mould forming an impost band. Triple-arched niche over. Pointed doors with long foliate wrought-iron hinges. Buttressed nave has 2-light windows with reticulated tracery beneath pointed hood-moulds. Continuous sill band. Clerestory windows are similar, of 3 lights. Tall west window of 5 lights with reticulated tracery and chamfered sill band. Coped gables and gable crosses to nave, chancel and porch. Interior: tall quoined tower arch of 3 chamfered orders. Pointed arcade of 2 chamfered orders on octagonal piers. Chancel arch of 2 orders springing from responds with attached shafts. Cll square font with blind arcading on a cylindrical pedestal with roll moulded foot. Pulpit and tester by W Brierley. Stained glass window by Kempe.

Listing NGR: SE7942771029

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
329716
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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