St Peter's Church, Rylstone

St Peter's Church 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 Leeds. Its benefice is united with that of St Wilfrid, Burnsall.[1] The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.[2]

St Peter's Church, Rylstone
St Peter's Church, Rylstone, from the south
St Peter's Church, Rylstone
Location in North Yorkshire
OS grid referenceSD 972,588
LocationRylstone, North Yorkshire
CountryEngland
DenominationAnglican
WebsiteSt Peter, Rylstone
History
StatusParish church
DedicationSaint Peter
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Heritage designationGrade II
Designated10 September 1954
Architect(s)E. G. Paley
Architectural typeChurch
StyleGothic Revival
Completed1853
Specifications
MaterialsGritstone, stone slate roofs
Administration
ParishRylstone
DeanerySkipton
ArchdeaconryCraven
DioceseLeeds
ProvinceYork

History

St Peter's was built in 1852–53 to a design by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley, replacing an earlier church on the site. Its total cost was £1,700 (equivalent to £170,000 in 2019),[3] of which between £1,000 and £1,100 was donated by Richard Waddilove.[4]

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.[5] There is a ring of three bells that were cast in 1853 by Charles and George Mears of the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.[6]

Churchyard

The churchyard contains four war graves, of a Yorkshire Regiment officer and Royal Navy seaman of the First World War and a Royal Artillery soldier and airman of the Second World War.[7]

See also

References
  1. Rylstone: St Peter, Rylstone, Church of England, retrieved 21 May 2011
  2. Historic England, "Church of St Peter, Rylstone (1132129)", National Heritage List for England, retrieved 30 May 2012
  3. UK Retail Price Index inflation figures are based on data from Clark, Gregory (2017), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)", MeasuringWorth, retrieved 2 February 2020
  4. Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 216, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
  5. "NPOR N02592", National Pipe Organ Register, British Institute of Organ Studies, retrieved 2 July 2020
  6. Rylstone, S Peter, Dove's Guide for Church Bell Ringers, retrieved 21 May 2011
  7. "CWGC Cemetery Report, details from casualty list". Retrieved 4 April 2015.
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