St Peter & St Paul, Hareby, seems to be a forgotten building of 1858 in a shrunken Wolds hamlet.

There is a small Decorated niche above the west doorway.

There is work by Eric Gill both on a churchyard cross and also on a memorial tablet inside.

Mark Acton, 2016

Pevsner describes the building as a construction of 1858 with upper parts of brick on a greenstone base. This applies to the chancel but is only an approximation as far as the nave is concerned.

Large blocks of rubble greenstone are interspersed throughout the higher areas of brick in both west and south walls of the nave. Victorian bricks are arranged in English bond on the gabled west wall but smaller Georgian bricks are laid in irregular fashion to complete the south wall.

It is therefore suggested that the church was rebuilt in the 1850s using some materials from an earlier church: greenstone (for the base or plinth and at random positions elsewhere) and eighteenth century bricks (south wall).

May 2016

The view from the south  shows the odd mixture of materials in nave wall, contrasting with the regular treatment of the chancel with its greenstone base and brick (English bond) construction.

Regular rows of shaped slates enhance the impact of the roof.

May 2016

A stylish bellcote.

The English Heritage listing simply describes it as 'a C19 trilobe and a gabled bellcote corbelled out from ashlar buttress with ogee headed bell opening'.

May 2016