ST JAMES

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058534
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: ST JAMES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058534
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1988
List Entry Name:: ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: ST JAMES

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ST JAMES

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cranmore
National Grid Reference:: ST 68141 43848

Details

CRANMORE CP EAST CRANMORE ST64SE 4/71 St James - GV II

Former Anglican church, now deconsecrated and used as a dwelling. 1846 by T.H. Wyatt, some late C20 alteration. Ashlar, coped verges, ornamental finials, slate roofs. Nave, chancel, south transept, south tower-porch, north vestry. Early English and Geometrical styles. Two stage tower-porch with pilaster buttresses to bottom stage, corner shafts to second stage, cornice with ball-flower ornament, tall recessed ribbed stone spire with cruciform finial and small gablets; 2-light bell-chamber openings with quatrefoils; shafted pointed-arch door opening, label stops carved as heads, ribbed and studded door. Five bay nave, pilaster buttresses with offsets, cusped lancets, west end with similar fenestration and a rose window. Transept with 2-light window with plate tracery to south, large gargoyle. Low vestry with lancets. Two bay chancel, lancets, good 3-light triple-lancet east window, carved heads as label stops; priests door to south, shafted opening, scrolly iron hinges. Majority of window openings with original glazing removed and late C20 aluminium casements inserted. Interior not seen at time of survey (March 1986) but is believed to be little altered with an elaborate arch-braced roof. Stated to stand on the site of a Saxon chapel which was rebuilt in the early C18. (Photographs in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST6814143848

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Legacy System number:: 268271
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.