List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF ST PETER
List Entry Number: 1227581
Location
CHURCH OF ST PETER, CHURCH VIEW
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Leeds
District Type: Metropolitan Authority
Parish: Thorner
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 30-Mar-1966
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 425473
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List Entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
THORNER CHURCH VIEW
SE3740 LS14 (east side)
16/175 Church of St. Peter
II
30.3.66
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Parish church. C15 tower, north aisle and arcade piers, reconstructed c1855
by Mallinson and Healey. Creamy-limestone tower, north aisle and part of
south aisle, rest rebuilt in gritstone; stone slate roof. West tower, nave,
aisles, south porch, chancel embraced by north and south chapels. Perpendicular
style. 2-stage embattled tower: plinth, angle buttresses with offsets. 3-light
west window with octagonal clock-face above; 2-light belfry windows. South face
has small arched doorway to base and 2-light window with chamfered light above.
Parapet carried on corbel table, corner pinnacles. 3-bay nave: original 3-light
window to left of gabled porch with pointed-arched doorway with richly-moulded
surround and colonnettes; angle buttresses; 2 bays to right a C19 copy of 1st bay
articulated by offset buttress. North-aisle windows retain original surrounds
but replaced tracery. Coped gable surmounted by cross at junction with chancel.
2-bay chapels break forward and have 3-light pointed-arched windows, coped gables
with crosses to apex. North chapel has ridge stack with brattished cap. Chancel
breaks ½-bay forward of chapels. East end presents 3 gables. 5-light east window
with cusped lights and curvilinear tracery.
Interior: pointed-arched arcades with octagonal piers lacking bases with moulded
capitals with C19 renewed brattished caps. Similar archways to tower, chancel and
chapels. North chapel blocked by organ, C19 king-post roof to nave, arched-braced
to chancel. Monuments: south chapel has resited wall tablets, the best raised
carved stone slab with good script and heraldic-coat memorial to John Savill of
Coppley c1677. Furnishings: C19 pews and choir stalls with carved poppyheads.
Prominent within the village.
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (1974)p510.
G. Kirk, History of Parish Church of St. Peter, Thorner, (booklet 1935).
Listing NGR: SE3798740539
Selected Sources
Books and journalsKirk, G , History of the Parish Church of St Peter Thorner, (1935)
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 510
Map
National Grid Reference: SE 37987 40539
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