Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1134588
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1134588
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH 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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 17900 23310
Details
SE 12 SE SPENBOROUGH MB CHURCH LANE HARTSHEAD 3/91 12/1/67 Church of St Peter
G.V. II*
Church. Norman tower, south doorway and chancel arch. The rest of the church is Neo-Norman of 1881. Hammer dressed stone, tower of coursed rubble, stone slate roof with gable copings. West tower, 3-bay nave and aisles, south porch, 2-bay lower chancel with vestry wing to north. Single 3-light gabled dormer to north and south pitch of nave. Triple groups of round arched windows, with hood moulds, to nave. Triple group east window with engaged colonnettes, hood mould and zig-zag decoration. A reset stone in the vestry wall is dated 1713, with names of 5 church wardens. South porch has zig-zag and bead and reel decoration, colonnette in reveals and hood mould with beak-head stops. The square west tower has slightly corbelled out crenellated parapet. Bell chamber openings are 2-light, one is transomed, some round arched. The south doorway and the chancel arch are the same, with two orders of columns with decorated scallop capitals and decorated abaci, and much close zig-zag work in the arch. 3-bay arcade to each side. Aisle windows have detached colonnettes. Font of 1881 on Norman base. Carved oak Holy Table, now in south chapel, was given by Sir John Armytage of Kirklees in 1708. C.17 candelabrum, in nave, from Hartshead Hall. Armytage family crypt under chancel.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1979.
Listing NGR: SE1790023310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340997
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967)
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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