Church of St Peter is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 October 1966. Church.

Church of St Peter

WRENN ID
nether-postern-heath
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Thirsk and Malton MP: Kevin Hollinrake (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
10 October 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Peter, Helperthorpe to Sherburn Road, Luttons
OS grid reference
SE 952 704
Coordinates
54.12076, -0.54377
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Peter was built between 1872 and 1875 by G E Street, with later additions and alterations in 1893 by Temple Moore, commissioned by Sir Tatton Sykes. It is constructed from sandstone ashlar with a tiled roof and pierced cresting.

The church features a west tower, a four-bay nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a higher chancel, and a vestry. The three-stage tower has a moulded plinth and a half-hexagonal vice with a statue of St Peter set in a niche beneath a gabled canopy. The west window has cinquefoil tracery, and there are pointed bell openings with pierced shutters. A low broach spire topped with a cockerel weather-vane rises above the tower. The north aisle has a gabled window, and the porch has a moulded pointed arch. The north side of the church contains a pointed doorway and three windows, while the chancel south side has two windows. A vestry was added to the north side, and the chancel east end holds a window of five cusped lancets. A moulded sill band encircles the church. Window tracery is geometrical, and coped gables with gable crosses adorn the nave, chancel, and porch.

Inside, the tall, narrow tower arch has three orders, with the inner order dying into the sides and the outer two being roll-moulded. The north arcade features pointed arches on clustered columns with moulded capitals. A wide, double-chamfered chancel arch also dies into the sides. There is a circular font with a carved wooden cover and fine wrought-iron work, a carved stone pulpit, and a carved stone altar-piece in the aisle with sculpted figures within three crocketed ogee-arched niches. A stone arcaded chancel altar-piece with a leafy frieze is also present, along with a low chancel screen of pointed wrought iron and carved pews by Temple Moore. The church contains stained glass by Burlison and Grylls. The nave roof is arch-braced with collar-beam construction and cusped wind-braced purlins. The aisle roof features corbelled arch braces with centre bosses and a moulded ridge piece. The porch has a pointed tunnel vault.

Local climate

Church of St Peter sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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