CHURCH OF ST PETER

CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1192787
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1962
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1192787
Date first listed:: 05-Nov-1962
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST PETER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET

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

District:: Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 51220 98754

Details

CONISBROUGH CHURCH STREET SK59NW (east side) 4/24 5/11/62 Church of St. Peter

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Church. Probably of C8 origin, remodelled C12, C14 and C15; restored 1866 and in later C19; vestry added 1913-14. Ashlar and rubble magnesian limestone, lead roofs. West tower overlapped by aisles to 3-bay nave, south porch; 2-bay chancel with north chapel in extension of aisle and north vestry. Tower: pre-Conquest core refaced C15; much restored. Chamfered plinth, moulded band; offset angle buttresses flank pointed-arched west door with hoodmould; string course beneath pointed-arched 3-light window having unrestored hoodmould with head-carved stops; statue niche over. North and south clocks and offset beneath belfry stage having pairs of transomed, 2-light openings with cusped blind panels below louvres; shared hoodmoulds with head-carved stops. String course with north and south gargoyles and traceried frieze beneath embattled parapet with 4 crocketed pinnacles. Navel aisle overlap to south of tower is of C15 ashlar with diagonal west buttress, square-headed window to south and triangular-headed 3-light window to west. C15 porch, restored C20, has angle buttresses and iron gates across pointed arch with shafted jambs, dog tooth to soffit and billeted hoodmould; 2-order C12 doorway within has renewed shafts and left capital to arch with chamfer, zig-zag and dogtoothed hood; C15 grave slab on inner porch wall to east beneath niche with seated figure. C14 aisle on right is of rubble with buttresses to east and between 2-light windows with chamfered, quoined surrounds and shouldered heads; Decorated 3-light east window has renewed tracery with couchettes beneath old hoodmould. C15 clerestorey: ashlar; pointed 3-light windows with hoodmoulds. Embattled parapets throughout south side, that to nave with crocketed pinnacles and east cross. North aisle, rebuilt 1866, incorporates 2 round-headed windows. Chancel: rebuilt OS in ashlar with chamfered plinth and moulded bandy buttresses to east and between bays. Tudor-arched priests' door beneath C20 hollow-chamfered 3- light window with square-head; to left a restored C15 window of 2-lights in same style; similar 3-light window on right has arched head. 5-light east window with renewed tracery to cusped ogee heads beneath arch with hoodmould. String course beneath coped ashlar parapet with crocketed east pinnacles and cross. Separately-roofed vestry of 1913 has Tudor-arched east door flanked by hooded ogee windows; similar north and west windows. Interior: tall double-chamfered tower arch; low C12 round arches from tower to aisles beneath round-headed slit windows. Pre-conquest side-alternate quoins to west end of nave visible from aisles. North arcade: 3 bays with plain round arches, bay-I arch taller; cylindrical piers with 1 scalloped capital and I carved with figures in foliage. Over central arch a blocked Saxon window with round-arched head cut in a single stone, the window splays externally; over outer arches are the quoined jambs of other pre-Conquest openings, their heads cut by clerestorey windows. South arcade, of c1200, has 3 pointed arches on cylindrical piers with differing carved capitals In south aisle a triangular-headed piscina with projecting square bowl. in north aisle an ogee recess beneath eastern aisle window; opposite is a semi- octagonal column piscina in C13 style; squint in wall above. Chancel arch: C12, restored, with roll-mould continued as shafts down west side and lozenge-carved imposts. C19 double-chamfered arch into north chapel with blocked, pointed doorway to east having quadrant moulding. Around east end of chancel is a string course above round-headed south piscina and recess in north wall with iron stanchions. Font: Perpendicular, octagonal with 4 shafts about the column; shields and figures in quatrefoiled side panels. Medieval altar stone, brought from castle and now in north chapel, has 5 crosses and relic box niche. Monuments: C13 cross slab at east end of north aisle; above it a wall monument to the Bosvile family having oval plaque set amongst foliage. On chancel south wall a monument by Knowles of Manchester to W. Richard Woodyeare (d.1835). On north wall that by Thomas of London to Fountain John Woodyeare of Crookhill Hall (d.1814). Brasses: near pulpit to Marie Tofield (d.1755); on chancel south wall to Rev. Henry Saxton dated 1665; in north aisle recess to Nicholas Bosvile (d.1523). In south aisle a remarkable C12 coped tomb chest bearing medallions with knights in combat, winged beasts and zodiac signs; sides have palmettes and warrior fighting a dragon whilst bishop with crozier stands by. Glass: jumbled C15 glass with 3 heads in chancel south window; east window of 1866 by H. Hughes. Detailed description in P.F. Ryder, Saxon Churchesin South Yorkshire, County Archaeology Monograph No 2, 1982, pp 45-61.

Listing NGR: SK5121898753

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

Legacy System number:: 334797
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ryder, P F, 'South Yorkshire County Archaeological Monograph' in Saxon Churches in South Yorkshire, (1982), 45-61

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.