Church of James
CHURCH OF JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024653
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF JAMES
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1024653
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Church of James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF JAMES
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 JAMES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Arrow with Weethley
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 05515 55319
Details
SPO5SE WEETHLEY
5/123 Church of St . James
- II
Church. 1857-58 by Edward Haycock. Lias ashlar with limestone dressings, and tile roof. 3 bay nave, apsidal chancel, west bellcote, and vestry. Late C13 style; Geometrical tracery with hood moulds. Nave north side; double leaf folding door with keeled roll moulding, in open timber porch. 2-light eastern window, and single lancets flanking door. West front has diagonal and central buttresses and 2 cusped lancets. South side has no windows; vestry with catslide roof. Chancel: 3-sided apse has single lancets with trefoiled circles and 2-light north window. Massive clasping buttresses to angles. Interior: chancel has an aumbry to north, single sedilia to south. Simple chancel arch with hood mould on brackets carved with naturalistic lilies and grapes, painted. Plastered walls throughout, and simple arch-braced roofs. Fittings: big octagonal font on 4 half-hipped gablets; fine High Victorian wood lectern; contemporary stained glass in apse. An inexpensive small church, but a well considered design with high- quality detailing. The church occupies a prominent position overlooking the Cotswolds. (V.C.H. Warwickshire, Vol. III p.188; Buildings of England : Warwickshire, p.466).
Listing NGR: SP0551555319
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 305136
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1945), 188
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 466
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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