Church Of St Peter

NORTH YORKSHIRE SELBY 5342

SE 51 NW KIRK SMEATON HODGE LANE (north side)

3/1 CHURCH OF ST PETER

25.3.68

• II*

Church. C12, C13, C14 and C15, heavily restored in 1864. Magnesian limestone with Welsh slate roof. 2 stage west tower with north boiler room, 3-bay nave with south porch and north aisle, single bay chancel with north chapel and vestry. Tower has diagonal buttresses with off-sets to first stage; chamfered plinth; to west side a 2-light window with re-cut Y-tracery within chamfered surround, further 2-light window with reticulated-type. tracery to head within double-chamfered surround . Chamfered band, pointed 2-light bell opening with hoodmould to each side. Moulded string course with gargoyles. Battlements with crocketted finials. Boiler room has recut window with Y-tracery, and pointed-arched opening. Nave, south side entrance to second bay,a pointed-arched opening with plank door, traceried overlight and hoodmould, all C19. Within, a pointed-arched opening with double-chamfered, ovolo-moulded surround and early C15 studded plank door. 2-light, round-arched window with reticulated-type tracery and 3-light, pointed reticulated-type window flanking the porch. North aisle has mainly 2-light windows with reticulated-type tracery and one with authentic reticulated tracery to head. Chancel; angle buttresses, priest's door to south side has plank door with pointed arch. Two-light window, a C19 insertion. Ashlar copings to nave and chancel east gables. Interior. Tower arch, restored, has cylindrical responds with plain capitals and double-chamfered pointed arch. Nave has 3-bay north arcade, 2 bays have clustered columns with moulded capitals and bases and double-chamfered, ovolo-moulded pointed arches, the third bay has a lower, pointed double- chamfered arch. Late Norman chancel arch, heightened in C13, has group of 3 - shafts with moulded capitals with foliage and strapwork and pointed arch with zigzag moulding. C19 double-chamfered arch to chapel. Chancel has Decorated triple sedilia with ogee gables, pinnacles and bossy foliage. Norman tub font decorated with intersecting arches on cylindrical shaft. Pevsner N, Yorkshire: The West Riding, 1.979, p293.

Listing NGR: SE5201116638