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St Peter Hungate sits in the attractive historical setting of Elm Hill, an enclave of tradition in the modern city. It is a largely 15th century cruciform building without aisles with a truncated west tower, now capped by a pyramid roof.
The church has been redundant since the 1930s, and was converted to use as a wonderful museum of medieval church art, displaying furnishings and artefacts from other redundant churches, complemented by this beautiful and authentic setting. Sadly this museum was closed in the late 1990s during a reorganisation of local museum services. The contents were put into storage and the church left closed and empty.
This was the first time I'd been in after this change of status, having visited the museum on a couple of previous occaisions. The difference was immediately apparent, a stark empty interior where the former display cabinets had been. The only old furnishing remaining is the ancient font, though there are also many good fragments of late 15th century stained glass in the east window and the traceries of several others.
Since this last visit in 2006 the church has been revived in a similar role to it's days as a museum as the Hungate Centre for Medieval Art, focussing on the art of stained glass.
For more information on the church prior to this see Simon Knott's entry on his Norfolk Churches website below:-
www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/norwichpeterhungate/norwichpete...
Church of St Peter, Cambridge Street, Harrogate
Grade II Listed
List Entry Number: 1149467
National Grid Reference: SE 30195 55345
Details
SE 3 55 SW, 14/64
CAMBRIDGE STREET, Church of St Peter
II
Circa 1871-6 by J H Hirst in Gothic style. Tower added circa 1926, built by Hymas to design of A A Gibson. 5-bay nave with aisles, transepts, 2-bay chancel and apsed sanctuary. Slated roof with coped gables. Rusticated gritstone ashlar with pedimented buttresses and parapets. 3-light aisle windows and 6-light west window with plate tracery. Trefoil lancet lights to sanctuary. Open wooden arch-braced roof. Gabled porch with double arched entrances. 3-stage tower at south west corner with 2-light belfry window with reticulated tracery.
Listing NGR: SE3019555345
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1149467
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St Peter, Harrogate, 1870-76, by JH Hirst. The church tower was not finished until 1926. In 2012 St Peter's underwent an ambitious £2.3m building development programme to create new meeting rooms and facilities to serve the needs of the community.
St. Peter's Catholic Church is the oldest Catholic church in Memphis. The first building was built around 1842 and was a simple wood structure. In 1852 the building pictured was constructed around the original building. When the new building was completed, the old church was dismantled and carried out the front door.
Memphis, Tennessee
My last call this afternoon, St Peter's, Bekesbourne in Kent. Third in a series of churches in a line from Bridge, after Bridge, Patrixbourne, then Bekesbourne, and finally after a gap, Littlebourne. The first three are less than a mile apart, so seem cheek by jowl.
St Peter is almost hidden behind trees, but the top of the tower was just showing from the road, and from the tower strained peals of badly rung bells and visitors were allowed to have a pull or two.
I have a very warm welcome here, and as the whole village seemed to have come out to take part, enjoy the day, it was very enjoyable indeed. As was the tea stall afterwards, which served Victoria Sponge ans d a fine cuppa for three quid.
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A pretty church that suffered at the hands of the nineteenth century restorer when the nave walls were stripped of plaster and the west tower rebuilt. The Norman north doorway is of considerable size - for the Archbishops of Canterbury had a palace here and their wealth is reflected in this structure. The thirteenth century string course in the chancel emphasises the liturgical changes in floor level, and there are two aumbries in the east wall behind the altar. A rather stilted figure of Sir Henry Palmer (d 1611) kneels under an Ionic portal with two Bethersden marble inserts. Another large marble monument commemorates Sir Thomas Pym Hales (d 1773) who is described as having displayed `increased benevolence to Mankind`. There is some surviving thirteenth century glass and a double piscina of the same period.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Bekesbourne
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BEAKSBOURNE (St. Peter), a parish, in the union of Bridge, and within the cinque-port liberty of Hastings (of which it is a member), though locally in the hundred of Bridge and Petham, lathe of St. Augustine, E. division of Kent, 3½ miles (E. S. E.) from Canterbury; containing 332 inhabitants. This parish, on account of its distance from Hastings, had formerly a local jurisdiction, a mayor, and a prison; but it is now united with Canterbury, the archbishops of which once had a palace here, long since converted into a private dwelling-house. The parish comprises by measurement 1139 acres, of which 64 are in wood. The living is a vicarage, valued in the king's books at £6; net income, arising from tithes, £170, with a permanent addition of £50 annually from the Archbishop, who is patron and appropriator.
www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp18...
The original church was built by Constantine in 324, but the present building is a Renaissance reconstruction of 1506-15. Until recently the largest church in the world, St. Peter's remains one of the holiest sites in Christendom. It stands over the traditional site of Saint Peter's burial; his tomb is under the main altar.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
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The parish church of St Peter's at Newnham-on-Severn - situated on the west bank of the River Severn.
St Peter's at Grandborough dates mostly to the 14th century, aside from the handsome west tower crowned by a spire. The churchyard is rather attractive, the approach being through an avenue of trees, whilst a sequoia stands nearby seemingly as tall as the steeple!
The interior is spacious with aisles flanking the nave and less restored than many, the timber roof of the chancel clearly of some antiquity. All the windows are plain-glazed throughout (the east window could do with some colour perhaps, hint hint).
The church is open Fri-Sun from 9am to 6pm in summer months and 9-4pm in winter,
More than 585 winter warriors Plunged into Hallet's Pond in St. Peter on February 2, 2013, to support Special Olympics Minnesota. These Plungers raised $105,000! Photo taken by Ruth Klossner.
The interior is a delight, seemingly unrestored, long and low with a plastered ceiling to the nave, a strange almost featureless chancel arch and a fine C15 panelled wagon roof to the chancel having carved wall plates with fleurons, ribs and bosses (although most of these restored). The clue was the small windows at the west end of the nave for a west gallery, although the present one seems to be more of a reinstatement of what was once here rather than original C17 work which the listing information says (and Pevsner offers early C19). It is accessed by a pull down ladder on small wheels, and you can closely inspect the Royal Arms dated 1792. Much of the woodwork is C17, there is extra seating available by pulling out sliding benches. Painted texts on the wall too, including one "The aged women...... shall teach the young women to be sober, to be chaste, keepers at home, to love their husbands." The north transept is subdivided and has a glazed screen to the two sections beyond (locked). The only jarring features, clearly seen in my view, the electronic sixties/seventies-styled organ behind the C13 font and the prominently displayed fire extinguisher! The village stocks are preserved in the porch, presumably for among others those young women who did not heed the advice inside!
Nearly 400 people took the Plunge on Feb. 12, 2011 as part of law enforcement's St. Peter Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Michelle Lindstedt.
St. Peter's Basilica interior @ Vatican city, Rome, Italy 2011
The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), officially known in Italian as Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano and commonly known as Saint Peter's Basilica, is a Late Renaissance church located within the Vatican City. Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world. While it is neither the official mother church of the Roman Catholic Church nor the cathedral of the Pope as Bishop of Rome, Saint Peter's is regarded as one of the holiest Catholic sites. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as "the greatest of all churches of Christendom"
Nearly 400 people took the Plunge on Feb. 12, 2011 as part of law enforcement's St. Peter Polar Bear Plunge for Special Olympics Minnesota. Photo by Michelle Lindstedt.