More information : [SK 1722 8347 Ch. [T.U.] (1)
Hope, St. Peter, has an early 14th cent. W. tower and Perpendicular
aisles, clerestory and S. porch. The chancel was rebuilt in 1882.
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In normal use. (3)
SK 18 SE PARISH OF HOPE CASTLETON ROAD
7/69 (South Side)
21.4.67 Church of St. Peter
GV I
Church. Early C14, C15, 1728-30 and 1881-2. Gritstone ashlar,
stainless steel roof hidden behind parapets. West steeple, nave
with north and south aisles and south porch and chancel. West tower
of three unequal stages, divided by chamfers. Angle buttresses to
west two stages with set offs. 2-light west window with cusped
Y-tracery. Crude 2-light openings. Squat stone broach spire with
entasis, rising from the edges of the tower. The tower is said to
have been rebuilt in 1728. Aisles, clerestory and south porch C15
and of a unified design, all topped with battlements and crocketed
pinnacles. Two 3-light windows with panel tracery to north and south
aisles and similar windows at the east and west ends of the aisles.
Also a plain doorway with wave moulding on the north side and a two
storey porch on the south side with polygonal stair turret on the
south east corner. Porch entrance with two orders of wave mouldings.
Cusped ogee vaulted niche above with C19 figure. Many large
gargoyles.
Clerestory windows of two cusped lights under square heads. The
chancel was rebuilt in 1881-2 with a poor Perp style east window,
side windows of two ogee lights under square heads and with
battlements and pinnacles. The interior of the porch has stone seats,
that on the east side interrupted by a Perp doorway to the stair
turret. South door with two orders of wave mouldings. C19 studded oak
door on top of an older door. Four bay nave arcades with polygonal
piers, moulded capitals and double chamfered arches. Plain double
chamfered tower arch and former roof line visible above. Piscina and
sedilia of c1300 in the chancel. C14 piscina in the south aisle.
At the west end of the north aisle, two C13 foliated cross slabs.
Three C17 chairs, two in the chancel and one in the north aisle.
C17 altar rails. Pulpit dated 1652. Panelling in chancel and stall
backs in nave made up from old box pews inscribed with numerous
late C16 and early C17 dates. Panelled C18 dado in aisles inscribed
with names and dates. Rare, painted hymn board dated 1806 with
painting of David on the back. Two C18 charity boards. Painted
board recording work done in 1730. Font with a C12 bowl. Two framed
paintings above the south door, dating from 1733 and depicting
'Aaron' and 'life'. Two more above the north door depicting 'Moses'
and 'Death'. Marble and alabaster reredos of 1910 containing a
vestry behind, an unusual motif copied from Tideswell and Sawley.
Chancel screen 1935. Much stained glass including the north aisle
east and north east windows of 1919 by F C Eden and chancel windows
by Kempe. South aisle window by Kempe.
SK 18 SE PARISH OF HOPE CASTETON ROAD
7/72 (South Side) Gatepiers to St Peter's
Churchyard
GV II
Gatepiers anad attached squeezer stile, C18. Gritstone ashlar.
The gatepiers are square in plan with moulded caps surmounted by
acorn
finials. Attached to the west a squeezer stile of two slabs of
gritstone, the upper parts cut away. Listed for group value only.
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