Church of St Peter
CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191961
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1191961
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Peter
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST PETER, HIGH 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, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Doncaster (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 56612 05593
Details
BENTLEY WITH ARKSEY HIGH STREET SE 50 NE (east side), Bentley
7/56 Church of St. Peter II Church. 1891-94. By John Codd for patron C. E. S. Cooke. Deeply-coursed dressed sandstone, red tile roofs. 5-bay nave with shallow aisles and south porch rising as a 3-stage tower with spire, north porch; narrower, lower, 2-bay chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. In Gothic Revival style with geometric tracery. Chamfered plinth, keel-moulded string courses below windows and rising over as continuous hoodmoulds. Nave: western bays have the porches, that to north walled-up and with statue in gable niche and ashlar roof. Other bays have pointed-arched 3-light windows. West end has 2-light windows between 4 buttresses and quatrefoiled, circular window in gable. Gable copings with west and east crosses. Tower: full-height angle buttresses; south door with hoodmould returning as a string course. 2nd stage: string course beneath small 2-light window; cusped, iron clockfaces. 3rd stage; recessed panel with large, paired belfry openings having transoms, louvres and hoodmoulds beneath foiled openings with linking hoodmould; corbel table over; broach spire with tall lucarnes. Chancel: C20 south addition in front of 2-light windows. North organ chamber has two small 2-light windows between string course and a foiled gable opening. Lean-to vestry to east with door at angle with organ chamber. Buttresses flank a 5-light east window.
Interior: nave has shallow aisles with differing piers of treble-shafted, cylindrical and octagonal form; double-chamfered, pointed arches with continuous hoodmould; lancet aisle arches. Roof: moulded tie beams, arch- braced trusses, coving and cusped arcading down each side. Chancel: carved oak choir stalls, pulpit with alabaster top rail. Alabaster reredos with 3 crocketed, gabled panels. Plaque on north wall notes that the church was erected by Charles Edward Stephen Cooke in memory of his parents on the feast of St. Peter MDCCCXCI.
Illustrated in Building News, Sept. 3, 1897.
Listing NGR: SE5661205593
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 334920
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Building News in 3 September, (1897)
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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