Church Of St Peter

HOYLAND NETHER HAWSHAW LANE SE30SE (south-east side) 2/9 Church of St. Peter - II Church. 1830 by Watson, Pritchett and Watson (Colvin p665). Deeply-coursed, dressed sandstone, Welsh slate roof. Orientated north-east/south-west, ritual orientation used here. West tower with lean-to north porch and south vestry, 4-bay nave and chancel in one with later north organ projection. Gothic Revival style; offset buttresses, hoodmoulds, embattled parapets. Tower: string courses between 3 offset stages. Diagonal buttresses rise as pinnacles with carved heads and crockets. Cavetto-moulded 2-light west window with cusped, pointed head; square-headed single-light window over; louvred 2-light belfry openings. Clocks to north and south beneath peaked parapet. Recessed, octagonal, ashlar spire. Lean-to north porch has Tudor-arched doorway, south vestry has later addition with west door. Nave and chancel: cavetto-moulded plinth, buttresses between bays, offset beneath 3-light windows which have leaded lights in cavetto-moulded surrounds with cusped heads. Oversailing course, embattled parapet. Organ projection has geometrical 2-light window and coped gable. Angle buttresses flank pointed, 4-light east window; quatrefoil in square recess beneath altered east gable.

Interior: cantilevered stone stair into bellchamber, iron handrail. West gallery on 2 octagonal pillars. Quadrant-moulded organ arch with keeled shafts. Continuous hoodmould over windows. Underdrawn roof with moulded beams and pierced archbraces at chancel division. Oak reredos commemorates men lost in the Great War. Trefoil- headed panelling to dado and gallery balustrade. Built on the site of a chapel erected in 1734-40 for the Townend family. Structure now heavily braced against subsidence.

H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1650-1840, 1978.

Listing NGR: SE3634200791