Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, BRIDGE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314926
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, BRIDGE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1314926
- Date first listed:
- 17-May-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, BRIDGE 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, BRIDGE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brafferton and Helperby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 43646 70152
Details
SE 4370 BRAFFERTON BRIDGE STREET 8/18 (north side, off) 17.5.60 Church of St Peter
II*
Church. C15 west tower, early C16 east chapels and chancel arcade. Nave and east wall of chancel rebuilt 1826-31. J P Pritchett. Restored 1878. Sandstone ashlar. Slate roof to chancel, other roofs concealed. West tower, wide aisleless nave and 2-bay chancel flanked by chapels. Battlemented 3-stage tower with set-offs. 3-light window with C20 glazing, tiny trefoil window and 2-light bell openings. Battlemented nave of greater width than east end. Wooden roof structure. Stepped group of 3-tall windows with transoms to each side adapts Perpendicular tracery design of chancel. Battlemented east chapels and chancel. 4-centred chancel with door. Inscription to east wall of north chapel: 'Soli deo gloria' and to the south wall of the south chapel: 'Orate aia Radulfi Nevell fundatoris istius cacellarii'. Below are 3 carved shields of Ralph Nevill, his wife and daughter Katherine, wife of Sir Walter Strickland and the words: 'et gloria soli deo honor et...' Plain chancel arcade with octagonal piers, capitals partly recent. Chamfered 2-centred arches C19 east window with glass by Kempe (also in south chapel) 1884-91. C14 font basin. Memorial slab to Laton Trewen Turner d.1777 with urn and inscription to north side of west wall of nave.
Pevsner, N., Yorkshire, North Riding, 1966, P86-7.
Listing NGR: SE4364670152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333361
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 86-7
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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