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St Peter's Church, Heysham 
St Peter's Church, HeyshamLocation in Lancashire
St Peter's Church, HeyshamCoordinates: 54°02′51″N 2°54′07″W / 54.0474°N 2.9019°W OS grid reference SD 410 616 Location Heysham, Lancashire Country England Denomination Anglican Website Parish of Heysham St Peter with St James and St Andrew History Dedication St Peter Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade I Designated 29 February 1950 Architectural type Church Style Saxon, Norman, Gothic,
Gothic RevivalCompleted 1864 Specifications Capacity 188 Materials Sandstone rubble
Stone slate roofsAdministration Parish Heysham Deanery Lancaster Archdeaconry Lancaster Diocese Blackburn Province York Clergy Rector Rev David Tickner MBE Laity Organist(s) Kenneth Streets St Peter's Church, Heysham, is in the village of Heysham, Lancashire, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building,[1] It continues to be in use as an active Anglican parish church[2] in the deanery of Lancaster, the archdeaconry of Lancaster and the diocese of Blackburn.[3]
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History
It is believed that a church was founded on this site in the 7th or 8th century. In 1080 it was recorded that the location was the site of an old Saxon church. Some of the fabric of that church remains in the present church. The chancel was built around 1340–50 and the south aisle was added in the 15th century. The north aisle was added in 1864 when other extensions and restorations were carried out. At that time an Anglo-Saxon doorway was moved and rebuilt in the churchyard, and two galleries which had served as private pews with their own entrances were taken down.[4]
Architecture
The church is built in sandstone rubble with stone slate roofs. Its plan consists of a three-bay nave with north and south aisles under a continuous roof, a lower two-bay chancel with north and south aisles under pitched roofs, the south aisle containing a chapel, a south porch and a bellcote containing two bells on the west gable. The west front has a pair of buttresses between which is a blocked Anglo-Saxon round-headed doorway. Above this is a two-light 19th century window. The east window of three lights dates from around 1300 as does the two-light window in the south wall of the chancel. Built into the chancel walls are coffin lids and the gravestone of a 17th–century vicar. The octagonal sandstone font probably dates from the 16th century.[1] The chancel arch has early Norman capitals with rope mouldings.[5] In the south chancel aisle is a Viking hogback stone and on the west wall is a medieval sepulchral slab with a floriated cross and sword.,[4]
External features
In the churchyard is the rebuilt Anglo-Saxon sandstone archway moved from the church in the 19th century. It is listed Grade II,[6] as is the walling to the west of the archway.[7] Also listed Grade II is a sandstone sundial shaft dated 1696,[8] and a medieval sandstone coffin.[9] Also in the churchyard is the lower part of the decorated shaft of an Anglo-Saxon cross on a modern sandstone base. It is a scheduled monument.[4][10][11]
See also
Anglo-Saxon cross base
References
- ^ a b "Parish Church of St Peter, Heysham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1279836, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ St Peter's, Parish of Heysham St Peter with St James and St Andrew, http://www.heyshamparish.org.uk/html/st_peter_s.html, retrieved 29 April 2008
- ^ Heysham, St Peter, Church of England, http://www.heyshamparish.org.uk/html/st_peter_s.html, retrieved 26 October 2008
- ^ a b c St Peter's History, St Peter's Heysham, http://www.heyshamparish.org.uk/hp/p_history.pdf, retrieved 29 April 2008
- ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus (2002) [1969], North Lancashire, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, p. 141, ISBN 0-300-09617-8
- ^ "Archway approximately 32 metres southwest of Parish Church of St Peter, Heysham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1208974, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ "Walling to west of archway in churchyard of Parish Church of St Peter, Heysham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1207216, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ "Sundial shaft approximately 18 metres south of Parish Church of St Peter, Heysham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1207217, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ "Stone coffin approximately 12 metres south of Parish Church of St Peter, Heysham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1208980, retrieved 16 May 2011
- ^ Heysham St Peter's Churchyard, The Megalithic Portal, http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=11184, retrieved 29 April 2008
- ^ "High cross in St Peter's churchyard, Heysham", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1009491, retrieved 16 May 2011
External links
Categories:- Church of England churches in Lancashire
- Grade I listed churches
- Grade I listed buildings in Lancashire
- Anglo-Saxon architecture
- Norman architecture
- English Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- Religious buildings completed in 1864
- 7th-century church buildings
- Diocese of Blackburn
- Buildings and structures in Lancaster
- Scheduled Ancient Monuments in Lancashire
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