Church Of Our Lady And St Peter

Church of Our Lady and St Peter

Parish church, originally 14th century, rebuilt in 1845 by the Duke of Newcastle using stone from Worksop Manor. The building is constructed in ashlar with tile roofs.

The church comprises a tower with north-east stair turret, nave, north aisle, north vestry and chancel. All are embattled with raised and coped east ends finished with kneelers. The chancel has a single ridge finial, while the nave has a finial of two diagonally set shafts topped with open cusped tracery.

The walls are buttressed and set on a chamfered plinth with a red brick base in places. The angle-buttressed tower has three stages with bands and three remaining crocketed pinnacles. Eight gargoyles adorn the tower, and four stage have rectangular openings with hood moulds and decorative label stops. Clock faces appear on the south, west and north elevations. The north-east stair turret rises in three stages with bands and four small gargoyles, featuring rectangular lights at the lower stages and a small rectangular window with two arched lights and a trefoil under a flat arch at the third stage.

The west wall of the tower contains a single arched window with two arched and cusped lights, tracery, hood mould and human head label stops. A tiled lean-to on the north side between the buttress and stair turret contains a moulded arched doorway with hood mould and decorative label stops. The south wall has a moulded arched doorway with hood mould and 14th century human head label stops.

The north aisle displays single finials at the parapet angles and two gargoyles, with three windows each containing a single arched and cusped light under a flat arch. The north vestry has a pointed arched and cusped light with hood mould and foliate label stops in the north wall, with a chamfered arched doorway to its left. The east wall has a similar pointed arched and cusped light.

The east chancel has single crocketed pinnacles at the angles, two gargoyles and a window with two arched and cusped lights, tracery, hood mould and foliate label stops. The south chancel has two windows each with two arched and cusped lights, tracery, cambered arch, hood mould and foliate label stops. The nave has three arched windows each with three arched and cusped lights, hood mould and human head label stops.

Interior

The interior features a three-bay 14th century nave arcade with octagonal columns, keeled responds and moulded capitals supporting double chamfered arches. Double chamfered arches supported on octagonal responds and moulded capitals separate the tower and chancel. An arched north doorway exists in the tower with an arched doorway leading to the vestry. An arched stoup stands to the left of the south-west doorway.

The 14th century octagonal font has panels decorated with blind tracery and a castellated traceried band running around the top. Two 14th century floor slabs in the chancel are decorated with single stylised crosses. A mid-14th century brass, either a demi-effigy or the top half of a lady, also survives. Monuments include one to Elizabeth Mason (1796) in the north aisle and one to John Mason (1802) with single pilasters with paterae flanking the inscription and supporting an architrave. A board records the donation of Mr Joseph Holliday in 1826. The furniture is otherwise 19th and 20th century.

The chancel, nave and aisle roofs are supported on decorative corbels. The quadripartite vaulted tower has decorative corbels and a single boss. The timbers of all roofs are similarly supported on decorative corbels.