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St. Peter’s Church (2)

St. Peter's Church Undated

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’.

St. Peter's Church Undated

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)

St. Peter's Church Undated

X192 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

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

St. Peter's Church Pulpit Undated

X193 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

A photograph of the pulpit.

St. Peter's Church Undated

FBA005 – St. Peter’s Church, Undated.

St. Peter’s Church – Undated

A view of the interior.

St. Peter's Church Rawdon Undated

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.

St. Peter's Church Rawdon 1958

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.

St. Peter's Church Rawdon 1959

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.

St. Peter's Church Rawdon Undated

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.

St. Peter's Church Stocks c1966

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.

St. Peter's Church Stocks c1966

X776 – St. Peter’s Church, c1966.

St. Peter’s Church – c1966

Another view of the old stocks.

St. Peter's Church Rawdon Undated

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.

St. Peter's Church Rawdon 1966

H057 – St. Peter’s Church , 1966.

St. Peter’s Church – 1966

Children enjoying the St. Peter’s Church Sunday School party held on Saturday 8th January 1966.

St. Peter's Church Rawdon 1976

FBA128 – St. Peter’s Church, 1976.

St. Peter’s Church – 1976

A sketch of St. Peter’s Church drawn and donated by Sam Kilburn.

St. Peter's Church Rawdon 2015

N224 – St. Peter’s Church , 2015.

St. Peter’s Church – 2015

New village stocks installed in the churchyard made by Jem Hayes.

Photographer Dennis Court.

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Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 25 January 2021.
Last updated: 14 September 2023 – Photo ID: X775 & X776. 17 October 2022 – All images updated.

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