St Peter
Thrybergh, Yorkshire
St Peter’s was opened in 1909, built for the growing population of the time.
Much of the current structure is Norman, with the tower and window arches dating from the 1400s.
An interesting number of monuments are mounted on the nave and chancel walls, starting from the Tudor period with the Reresby Chantry up to a Fullerton aviator lost in World War I. They include an Elizabethan memorial to the Reresby family showing eight sons and ten daughters!
The south east nave window has some fine stained glass, brought together from fragments of 15th century glass. The stained glass windows had been badly damaged during the Civil War, leaving only small sections in individual windows. One of the larger monuments is to Sir John Reresby. He was a Minister of the Government, Royalist Cavalry Leader, a Burgess and a Magistrate of York. The monument is of black and white marble, with weapons and skulls all over it. A smaller one is a memorial to John Reresby from his son, saying that his purse was insufficient to provide a larger monument through his fathers financial loss.
