Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, KIRKTHORPE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313216
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, KIRKTHORPE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313216
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, KIRKTHORPE 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, KIRKTHORPE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wakefield (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Warmfield cum Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 36137 20975
Details
SE32SE WARMFIELD-CUM-HEATH KIRKTHORPE LANE (west side), Kirkthorpe
1/98 Church of St. Peter
22.11.66 GV II*
Church. C14 tower, body of church rebuilt c1875, tower parapet renewed c1904. Perpendicular style. Large dressed stone to tower, smaller hammer-dressed stone to body of church, stone slate roof. West tower, nave, north aisle, south porch, chancel with north chapel. 2-span roof. 2-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, with offsets to west angles only, rising to just below 2nd-stage band. C19 west window of 3 cusped lights with panel tracery. North-east stair-turret has lean-to roof and arrowslits. South face has inserted C19 window. 2-light belfry window to each face has Y-tracery and cusped lights. Set just below is small chamfered light. Corner gargoyles. Ashlar embattled parapet with corner crocketed pinnacles. Nave: 4 bays. Porch, set in 1st bay, has 2-centred-arched doorway with stop-chamfered surround, diagonal buttresses, coped gable and inner C19 arched doorway. Bays to right hand: plinth, 3-light windows with cusped lights set in a square-headed double-chamfered surrounds, and offset buttresses dividing bays. Larger buttress at division between nave and chancel. Coped gable. North aisle has one original buttress with carved figure on offset. Chancel: lower. 3 bays articulated by buttresses. 2-light window with hoodmould, 2 blind bays. Two 3-light east windows with vesica above chancel window. Grotesque gargoyle reused as kneeler to right.
Interior: open aisle arcade has columns of clustered colonnettes, quatrefoil in section, with moulded capitals decorated with fleurons. C19 hammer-beam roof, arched-brace roof to chancel. Choir stalls with carved poppy heads by John Wolstenholme (York). Stained glass windows by Wailes (Newcastle), some fragments of medieval glass remain in nave and aisle windows. Octagonal cup-shaped font dated 1718. The chief merit of the church is a fine collection of C18 wall monuments. The most important of these is the Stringer Monument by Guelfi: 2 detached busts on a sarcophagus with straight tapering sides; background by Kent with inscription, a frame starting from 2 big volutes and crowned by an open-segmental pediment carved coat-or-arms with putti. The Smyth chapel has numerous monuments dating from 1731; including that to John Smyth of 2 putti uncovering his portrait on an oval medallion, that to Lady Georgina Smyth and others signed by Flaxman; 1799.
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1974) p294.
Listing NGR: SE3613720975
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 342403
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 294
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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