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St Peter

St Peter

Hackness

North Yorkshire

Chancel arch C11 or earlier

Architectural Features

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.

North side of eastern respond has round-arched niche with incised floral carving at rear.

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 Chancel, south wall: wall monument to Lady van den Bempde-Johnstone A standing female figure by Matthew Noble.

Sanctuary, north wall: wall monument of nearly life-size figures in high relief to Margaret Anne Johnstone By Chantry.

Elaborate cartouche to Arthur Dakyns erected by Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby and his wife, Margaret, who "repayred" the chancel in 1597.