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BB049 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

Title	St. Peter’s Church
Date	Undated
Location	Rawdon
Photo ID	BB049
Comment	See below….

A view of the interior looking up to the altar from the main entrance.

Although undated, this view is how I remember it during the early 1950s. (Editor. J Brayshaw)

On the reverse of this image is the following:
‘Nicholas Davis 14.8.1988. Last copy in Post Office, card printed prior to 1984 when church interior was refurbished’.

BB050 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

Another view taken closure up the aisle looking at the altar.

Although undated, this view is how I remember it during the early 1950s. (Editor. J Brayshaw)

X192 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

A view of the clock tower and the entrance gate to the vicarage.

X193 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

A photograph of the pulpit.

FBA005 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

A view of the interior.

E006 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

The church decorated for the Harvest festival. The columns, altar rails and pulpit are trimmed with foliage.

F206 – St. Peter’s Church Vicarage, 1958.

St. Peter’s Church Vicarage – 1958

Dating back to the 17th century, the vicarage was built by Thomas Layton.

Rev. John Deason (1745 – 1780) extended and repaired the building paying the cost himself. It was at one time used as a school for boys. By the early 1960s it was almost derelict and so was demolished and a new vicarage built. The vicar at the time was Rev. Victor George Marriot.

F166 – St. Peter’s Church, 1959.

St. Peter’s Church – 1959

A picture card. Rene Hoare, mother of Valerie Ryan (nee Hoare) was given this card by Mabel Palliser who had been her teacher at Rawdon National School, which was destroyed by fire in 1951 and replaced by the now St. Peter’s (C of E) Primary School in 1956. She had also taught Stuart Hoare and his sister Valerie occasionally.

FB478 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

The building on the corner of Town Street and Layton Avenue (Back Lane) is one of the two small alms houses that stood here, and the one in view was used during the 1950s and 1960s by Rawdon 17th Airedale Cubs and Scouts as an equipment store, the other one having been demolished to make way for a pair of large semidetached houses.

The old National School is out of sight behind the low wall before the alms house and fronted by a wooden church institute building. This and the old school itself became emergency classrooms during the rebuilding of the National School during the early 1950s.

X775 – St. Peter’s Church, c1966.

St. Peter’s Church – c1966

The old stocks which were replaced in the churchyard in 1925 after being removed in the 1880s. They have been replace with new ones in 2015.

X776 – St. Peter’s Church, c1966.

St. Peter’s Church – c1966

Another view of the old stocks.

X194 – St. Peter’s Church , Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

The following two photographs of the stocks which are located in the grounds of St. Peter’s Church. At some point in the 1860s they were removed but found and reinstated in 1925.