Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1200723
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1200723
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Woolley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 31936 13016
Details
SE31SW WOOLLEY CHURCH STREET (east side)
4/112 Church of St. Peter
22.11.66 GV I
Church. Mainly C15 with south-aisle added C16, restored c1870. Large well- coursed dressed stone, C20 Bradstone roof. Perpendicular. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel, north and south chancel chapels. 2-stage embattled tower has diagonal buttresses with offsets. Chamfered plinth, moulded band. West doorway with double-channelled surround has hoodmould. 3-light west window above with cusped lights and panel tracery; on south face 4 arrow-slits one above the other to light stair. 2-light belfry openings have cusped lights with quatrefoil over to each face; clock face set under to north. Projecting rainwater spouts at base of parapet with corner and central crocketted pinnacles. 4-bay nave and aisles has diagonal buttresses. North aisle has each bay articulated by offset buttresses, 2nd bay blind other bays have 3-light windows with double-chamfered surrounds, square heads and cusped lights; sides (west end) have same windows and coped lean-to roofs. South aisle, largely rebuilt c1870, has 2-light window to left of C15 porch in 2nd bay: segmental-pointed doorway of 2 orders with small niche over; diagonal buttresses and coped gable restored c1870. Interior of porch has fine oak king-post roof with boarded ceiling and moulded rafters and ridge, bratished wall plate. Inner doorway recut. Windows have round-headed lights with sunken spandrels. Coped division between nave and chancel continues to form offset buttress to chancel chapels which break forward: 2 bays to south, 3 bays to north, both with 3-light windows. Priest's door with round head to south and pointed arch to north. Lean-to roofs. East end has shallow-arched 3-light windows to chapels either side of taller 5-light window with reticulated tracery, possibly entirely c1870. Offset buttresses with pinnacles. Coped gable with cross finial.
Interior: aisle arcades have pointed arches of 2 orders with octagonal columns with moulded capitals, that to north lower under shallower roof pitch. Rood loft doorway has re-used C12 tympanum carved with Lamb and Cross and foliated border, spiral stair has Romanesque spiral-twist column. 3-bay arcades to chancel chapels. South chapel: C16 carved screen; partly occupied by organ; cusped piscina and original coved ceiling with heraldic painted bosses; wall monument c1682 to the Beaumont family; funeral hatchment. North chapel: C19 screen, a copy of that in south chapel; tomb niche; East window has fine C15 stained glass; wall monument to George Wentworth of Wooley, c1660. The south aisle west window has stained glass c1871 possibly by Morris and Co.
Furnishings: some original pews with carved bench ends with panel tracery to rear of church; C19 pews copy the design, front pews re-use C15 carved Gothic bench ends. C19 waggon roof to nave and chancel.
Listing NGR: SE3193613016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342417
- 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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