Church of St Peter Hackness, England

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SE 9690 HACKNESS HACKNESS TO SUFFIELD ROAD (south side)

11/57 Church of St Peter

18.1.67 GV I

Church. Chancel arch Cll or earlier; early C12 south arcade; late C12 north arcade, tower and tower arch; C15 spire, chancel, clerestorey, battlements and gables; early C17 vestry and window to north chapel. Aisles rebuilt and porch added during restoration of c1870 (on rainwater heads). Roughly- dressed sandstone and sandstone ashlar, with slate roofs. West tower: 3-bay, aisled nave with clerestory; south porch; chancel, north chapel and vestry. 3-stage, embattled tower on tall chamfered plinth, with staircase vice at south-west corner. Angle buttresses to north-west and south-east, the latter with gablets. Lancets to south and west, and slits to vice. Bell-openings are paired pointed lights with shafts beneath round arches and hood-moulds. Chamfered bands to each stage. Plain parapet and recessed octagonal spire. To south, gabled and buttressed porch with pointed opening encloses rebuilt doorway. Rebuilt window to east. Restored clerestory windows of paired pointed foiled lights with chamfered mullions beneath square arches. Embattled parapet. North aisle windows rebuilt. Original clerestory windows similar to those on south. Embattled parapet. 2 windows to south wall of chancel, of paired square-arched lights with reticulated tracery. Third, later inserted, window to west of central buttress with offsets and crocketed gablets which rises through embattled parapet. On the north side are 2 windows with chamfered mullions, one of 5 segment-arched lights and one of 3 square-arched lights. East end has clasping buttresses with crocketed gablets and pinnacles. Restored 3-light window with panel tracery and pointed hood-mould. Coped gable to porch and crow-stepped gables to nave and chancel. Gabled bellcote with round-arched opening to nave east end. Interior: tower arch of 3 orders to each face, the centre one filleted, with moulded bell capitals, square abaci and hood-mould. South arcade of 2 round arches beneath chamfered hood-moulds, on cylindrical piers and responds with scalloped capitals and square abaci. North arcade of 3 double chamfered pointed arches on cylindrical piers with attached shafts. Piers have moulded bell capitals, columns waterleaf capitals and square abaci. Western pier has cable-moulded base. North side of eastern respond has round-arched niche with incised floral carving at rear. Round chancel arch on chamfered responds with stops. Imposts chamfered on lower edge, the north one with interlace carving. In the south aisle are 2 pieces of an Anglo-Saxon cross, probably dating to the C9. Approximately 1.75 metres high, they are finely carved with interlace, foliage scrolls, a head and the lower parts of 2 griffins. Misericords, probably C15, one to north, and 7 to south, carved with a variety of motifs, including vines, a mask and grotesques. Fine C15 font cover, restored in 1947, in the form of a tall octagonal canopy with buttresses and crockets, carved Perpendicular tracery and 8 figures around the base. C19 octagonal font with carved panels. Octagonal Jacobean font. William and Mary hatchment over the chancel arch. Monuments. North aisle: swathed cartouche, inscribed in Latin, erected in 1682 to Sir Thomas-Posthumous Hoby (d 1640). Chancel, south wall: wall monument to Lady van den Bempde-Johnstone (d 1853). A standing female figure by Matthew Noble. Sanctuary, north wall: wall monument of nearly life-size figures in high relief to Margaret Anne Johnstone (d 1819). By Chantry. Elaborate cartouche to Arthur Dakyns (d 1592) erected by Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby and his wife, Margaret, who "repayred" the chancel in 1597. South wall: alabaster wall tablet with fulsome tribute to Margaret Hoby (d 1633). N Pevsner, The Buildings of England; Yorkshire, the North Riding, 1966; p 180. J J Winterbotham, Hackness in the Middle Ages, 2nd edn, 1985.

Listing NGR: SE9690990556