Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, HODGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316345
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HODGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1316345
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HODGE 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, HODGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kirk Smeaton
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 52011 16638
Details
NORTH YORKSHIRE
SELBY
5342
SE 51 NW KIRK SMEATON HODGE LANE
(north side)
3/1 CHURCH OF ST PETER
25.3.68
- II*
Church. C12, C13, C14 and C15, heavily restored in 1864. Magnesian
limestone with Welsh slate roof. 2 stage west tower with north boiler room,
3-bay nave with south porch and north aisle, single bay chancel with north
chapel and vestry. Tower has diagonal buttresses with off-sets to first
stage; chamfered plinth; to west side a 2-light window with re-cut Y-tracery
within chamfered surround, further 2-light window with reticulated-type.
tracery to head within double-chamfered surround . Chamfered band, pointed
2-light bell opening with hoodmould to each side. Moulded string course
with gargoyles. Battlements with crocketted finials. Boiler room has recut
window with Y-tracery, and pointed-arched opening. Nave, south side
entrance to second bay,a pointed-arched opening with plank door, traceried
overlight and hoodmould, all C19. Within, a pointed-arched opening with
double-chamfered, ovolo-moulded surround and early C15 studded plank door.
2-light, round-arched window with reticulated-type tracery and 3-light,
pointed reticulated-type window flanking the porch. North aisle has mainly
2-light windows with reticulated-type tracery and one with authentic
reticulated tracery to head. Chancel; angle buttresses, priest's door to
south side has plank door with pointed arch. Two-light window, a C19
insertion. Ashlar copings to nave and chancel east gables. Interior.
Tower arch, restored, has cylindrical responds with plain capitals and
double-chamfered pointed arch. Nave has 3-bay north arcade, 2 bays have
clustered columns with moulded capitals and bases and double-chamfered,
ovolo-moulded pointed arches, the third bay has a lower, pointed double-
chamfered arch. Late Norman chancel arch, heightened in C13, has group of 3 -
shafts with moulded capitals with foliage and strapwork and pointed arch
with zigzag moulding. C19 double-chamfered arch to chapel. Chancel has
Decorated triple sedilia with ogee gables, pinnacles and bossy foliage.
Norman tub font decorated with intersecting arches on cylindrical shaft.
Pevsner N, Yorkshire: The West Riding, 1.979, p293.
Listing NGR: SE5201116638
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 326501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 293
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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