Church Of St Peter

TANKERSLEY BLACK LANE SK39NW 4/59 Church of St. Peter 25.4.69 GV II* Church. C14 and C15, north aisle wall rebuilt 1881. Ashlar sandstone, rubble walling to chancel; nave roof not visible, C19 tiles to chancel. West tower, 3-bay nave with north aisle and south porch, 2-bay chancel with north organ chamber and vestry. Decorated; reticulated tracery. Tower: chamfered plinth, north-east vice in the form of a large buttress. 1881 datestone beneath 3-light west window with hoodmould. Round-headed slit windows beneath louvred 2-light belfry openings with rounded arches; square-headed belfry window on west. String course beneath embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Nave: chamfered plinth. Rebuilt south porch has iron gates by Lutyens, 1901 (Brinknam p15), in quadrant-moulded ogee arch; gable copings with cross. Porch within has cavetto- moulded south door and medieval stones in side walls. Flanking 3-light windows have restored tracery and hoodmoulds. Sundial dated 1789 at south-west corner. Three C16-C17 two-light mullioned windows (that on right altered) beneath string course and embattled parapet. Rebuilt north wall with square-headed windows having cusped ogee lights, clerestorey with two 3-light windows, parapets as south. Chancel: blocked ogee-arched priest's door flanked by 2-light windows with quadrant-moulded surrounds to ogee lights beneath square head. C19 organ chamber has buttresses flanking plate tracery window beneath gable; lean-to vestry. C14 east window of 3 lights has head-carved hoodmould beneath gable with shaped kneelers, copings and cross.

Interior: tall double-chamfered tower arch. North aisle has broach-stopped bases to cylindrical piers with moulded capitals (1 round, 1 octagonal); eastern respond with restored (?) waterleaf decoration; double-chamfered arches. Tall, pointed and double-chamfered chancel arch on moulded brackets. Pointed-arched rood-stair door. C19 roofs and fittings. Monuments: cross slab with book and chalice to Thomas Toytyll (d1482) - near priest's door; other incised slabs include one to Richard Worteley (d1435). Eastern window on south side of nave probably by Morris and Co. in the style of Burne-Jones is in memory of Ellen Walker(d1879).

S. Brinkman, The Parish and Church of St. Peter, Tankersley, in the Diocese of Sheffield, 1983.

Listing NGR: SK3495099586