Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1022456
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1022456
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, THE STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cherhill
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 03844 70286
Details
CHERHILL THE STREET SU 07 SW (north side) 9/107 Church of St James 20.12.60 GV II* Anglican parish church, C12 or C13 origins, mostly C15, restored 1863 by S.B. Gabriel of Bristol. Rubble stone and ashlar with stone slate roofs and coped gables. C15 west tower, earlier nave and chancel, C15 south aisle and south porch. Plain 3-stage ashlar tower with dripcourses, pointed 2-light bell-openings, embattled parapet and small angle pinnacles. Mutilated west window with single centre mullion inserted. South aisle is ashlar, gabled with cross finials, diagonal buttresses, 2-light 4-centred end windows and two flat-headed 3-light south windows, each side of porch. Porch has 1863 rebuilt front wall and roof. Moulded pointed inner door. Nave north side is rubble stone with late C17 or early C18 long mullioned windows. From right, a 2-light in moulded architrave, a small blocked round-arched doorway, partly C12, then 2-light and 3-light recessed mullion windows, the latter with hoodmould. Chancel has rubble east wall with large Perpendicular 5-light pointed east window, plain roughcast south wall and 1863 north vestry. A dip in roofline between nave and chancel. Interior: 3-bay C15 south arcade, 4-centred arches on octagonal piers. Plastered nave roof with three tie-beams, south aisle roof seemingly of re-used timbers. Large nave west gallery of 1840, on two iron columns with Gothic panelled front, said to be C15 bench ends. 1863 stone pulpit and low stone screen with ornate iron gates. 1863 ornate 2-bay chancel roof, pine trusses on stone angel corbels. East window has curious shafting, possibly C14 and carved rosettes in hoodmould, C14 or C15, the stonework possibly re-used. 1931 stained glass. Vestry screen said to be a copy of destroyed chancel screen. Fittings: octagonal stone font, possibly C15 retooled, rare c1700 brass chandelier, removed from Calne church, 1863 stalls and benches, 1931 oak reredos. Cherhill was a chapel of Calne until C19. First reference is to money left for repairs in 1267. (J.H. Blackford, A history of the Manor and Village of Cherhill, 1941; 121-68; Wiltshire Record Office Dl/ 61/ 14/ 9 1862 restoration plans; N. Pevsner, Wiltshire 1975; 165)
Listing NGR: SU0384470286
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 316231
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Blackford, J H, The Manor and Village of Cherhill, (1941), 121-168
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 165
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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