Church Of St Peter

WILLERBY WAINS LANE TA 07 NW (north side) 7/88 Church of St Peter 10.10.66 - II* Church. C13 nave; late C14 tower and south porch; north aisle narrowed in late C18; restoration of late C19, when chancel was rebuilt. Dressed sandstone on chamfered plinth; slate roof. West tower; 5½-bay aisled nave and continuous chancel; south porch. Squat tower with embattled parapet. Dwarf offset buttresses flank west window of 3 pointed lights with renewed chamfered mullions. Louvred 2-centred-arched bell openings in east, west and south faces. Pent-roofed vice on north face. String course beneath parapet. Gabled porch contains chamfered opening with 2-centred arch on moulded imposts. Coved hoodmould on headstops has keystone with carved head of St Peter with crossed keys. Gable apex contains canted sundial. Cavetto moulded eaves course. South doorway is 2-centred with renewed door on reused C-hinges. East of door are 2 square-headed windows of 3 foiled lights with renewed Dagger tracery. Dwarf offset buttresses further east, and two C19 lancets with hoodmofilds in chancel. North side has 4 lancets and offset buttress at each end. Renewed east window of 3 foiled lights with Geometric tracery beneath pointed hoodmould. Gable cross at chancel east end. Interior: double-chamfered tower arch on coved imposts, the north one renewed. North arcade of double-chamfered arches on 4 cylindrical and a central octagonal piers. Capital of westernmost pier has nailhead moulding; the next east has fleurons; octagonal pier capital has limpet shell mouldings. Remaining capitals uncarved. Easternmost arch rests on reused headstop. Continuous hoodmould to arcade on 3 head and 3 stiff-leaf stops. Glass: east window in south aisle, to John and Hannah Taylor, c1879. Good C19 oil lamps with ruby glass and brass fittings.

Listing NGR: TA0082879175