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St Peter's Church, Rylstone 
St Peter's Church, Rylstone, from the southLocation in North Yorkshire
St Peter's Church, RylstoneCoordinates: 54°01′32″N 2°02′41″W / 54.0255°N 2.0447°W OS grid reference SD 972 588 Location Rylstone, North Yorkshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Peter, Rylstone History Dedication Saint Peter Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 10 September 1954 Architect(s) E. G. Paley Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1853 Specifications Materials Gritstone, stone slate roofs Administration Parish Rylstone Deanery Skipton Archdeaconry Craven Diocese Bradford Province York St Peter's Church, Rylstone, is in the village of Rylstone, North Yorkshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Skipton, the archdeaconry of Craven, and the diocese of Bradford. Its benefice is united with that of St Wilfrid, Burnsall.[1] The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building.[2] It was built in 1853 to a design by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley.[2]
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Architecture
Exterior
The church is constructed in gritstone and has a stone slate roof. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with a clerestory and a chancel in one range, north and south aisles, a south porch, and a west tower. The tower is in three stages with diagonal buttresses, a southeast stair turret, and a moulded crenellated parapet. In the two lower stages are Perpendicular-style west windows, those in the bottom stage having three lights, and those in the middle stage two lights. On each side of the top stage is a flat-headed three-light bell opening. The clerestory windows are similar in style to the bell openings in the tower. The other windows are in Decorated style, those along the aisles having two lights and the east window five lights. The porch has benches on each side.[2]
Interior
Inside the church the arcades are carried on octagonal pillars. The pulpit and font date from the time of the building of the church. In the church are memorials to two local benefactors.[2] The two-manual organ was built in 1932 by Albert Keates.[3] The ring consists of three bells that were cast in 1853 by Charles and George Mears of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.[4]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley
References
- ^ Rylstone: St Peter, Rylstone, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/rylstone-st-peter/, retrieved 21 May 2011
- ^ a b c d "Church of St Peter, Rylstone", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1132129, retrieved 21 May 2011
- ^ Yorkshire, West Riding (Yorkshire, North), Rylstone, St. Peter (N02592), British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N02592, retrieved 21 May 2011
- ^ Rylstone, S Peter, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?searchString=rylstone&Submit=+Go+&DoveID=RYLSTONE, retrieved 21 May 2011
Categories:- Church of England churches in North Yorkshire
- Diocese of Bradford
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in North Yorkshire
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Religious buildings completed in 1853
- E. G. Paley buildings
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