Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188638
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1188638
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, SCHOOL LANE
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, SCHOOL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Osmotherley
- National Park:
- North York Moors
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 45567 97186
Details
OSMOTHERLEY SCHOOL LANE SE 4497-4597 (north side) 6/56 Church of St Peter 31.3.70 GV II*
Church. C12 south door, C14 chancel, C15 south chapel and tower, C16 south porch and south aisle; chancel, south chapel, south aisle and nave virtually rebuilt during restoration in 1892 by C Hodgson Fowler. Ashlar, graduated stone slate and lead roofs. Plan: west tower, 3 bay nave with rebuilt south aisle and south porch, and chancel with south chapel. West tower: 3 stages. Plinth, diagonal offset buttresses. South side second stage has small ogee- arched 1-light window, moulded band. Belfry: 2-light flat headed mullion and transom openings with arched cusped lights. Eaves band, embattled parapet, pinnacles to each corner. To west side a large C16 3-light mullion and transom window with arched lights, very flat 4-centred arch to head. Below band a clock face. Nave: 3 bays, offset angle buttresses between bays. North windows are Perpendicular in style with pointed arches. South aisle: windows are of 3-lights, Perpendicular style with flat heads and hoodmoulds. Stone coping, gable cross. South porch: offset angle buttresses with pinnacles, pointed arch doorway, above a gable with cross. The south doorway was re-sited in C19. C12 doorway with 2 orders of columns with scalloped capitals. The arch has zigzag and beakhead motifs. Chancel: north side has 2-light and 3-light Perpendicular style windows with pointed arches. To south on left is gabled south chapel with 2-light 4-cented arched window with cusping and hoodmould. To right, set back slightly an extension with moulded pointed-arched priests doorway. Stone coping, gable cross. East window: 3 lights, with pointed arch, Perpendicular in style, hoodmould. Interior: south arcade of 4 bays with octagonal shafts and moulded pointed arches. Chancel arch similar with short clustered responds. Chancel arcade of 2 bays with plain moulded pointed arches. Early C12 font, cylindrical in shape, with rope motif frieze near the top. East window by Kempe c1893. Remains of an Anglo-Danish cross-shaft with interlace and part of a hogback tombstone.
Listing NGR: SE4556797186
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 332474
- 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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