St Peter's Church, Thorner

St. Peter's Church
Church of Saint Peter
Location Thorner, West Yorkshire
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Architecture
Status Parish Church
Heritage designation Grade II listed building
Specifications
Materials limestone tower, gritstone chancel with stone slate roof
Administration
Parish Thorner with Scarcroft
Archdeaconry Leeds
Diocese Leeds
Province York

St. Peter's Church in Horbury, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

History

The south chapel, chancel and north chapel.

The church has a 15th-century tower, the rest of the street was largely reconstructed in 1855 by Mallinson and Healey.[1]

Architectural style

Exterior

The church has a limestone tower, a gritstone chancel and a stone slate roof. The church is of a perpendicular style with a west tower, a south porch and a chancel embraced by north and south chapels. The tower is of two stages with angled buttresses with offsets and an octagonal clock face.[2]

Interior

The church has arched arcades with octagonal piers with moulded capitals. The north chapel has an organ. The south chapel has wall tablets and a heraldic memorial to John Savill. The church is furnished with 19th century pews and choir stalls with carved poppyheads.[3]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Church of St Peter, Thorner". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  2. ↑ "Church of St Peter, Thorner". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
  3. ↑ "Church of St Peter, Thorner". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 2016-06-18.
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Coordinates: 53°51′34.9″N 1°25′26.6″W / 53.859694°N 1.424056°W / 53.859694; -1.424056

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