Chancel to Church St James

CHANCEL TO CHURCH ST JAMES, CHAPEL GATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064541
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1966
List Entry Name:
Chancel to Church St James
Statutory Address:
CHANCEL TO CHURCH ST JAMES, CHAPEL GATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1064541
Date first listed:
30-Jun-1966
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Nov-1987
List Entry Name:
Chancel to Church St James
Statutory Address 1:
CHANCEL TO CHURCH ST JAMES, CHAPEL GATE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHANCEL TO CHURCH ST JAMES, CHAPEL GATE

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

County:
Lincolnshire
District:
South Holland (District Authority)
Parish:
Sutton St. James
National Grid Reference:
TF 39654 18393

Details

SUTTON ST. JAMES CHAPEL GATE TF 31 NE (north side) 6/93 Chancel to Church St. James 30.6.66 formerly listed as part of Church of St. James)

G.V. II

Chancel of church. C15, heavily restored 1879 and 1894, C20 extension. Ashlar, red brick, dressed coursed rubble. Plain tile roofs with coped gables and decorative ridge cross to the east. Chancel with C19 apsidal east end and C19 north aisle, C20 extension to west. West wall with evidence of former nave roof line. West wall of aisle with single C19 single light pointed arched window with cusped tracery. North wall with 3 C19 pointed arched 2 light windows with cusped tracery. East wall with single window as west wall. East chancel, set on a moulded plinth extending to the south chancel, has 3 C19 pointed arched 2 light windows with cusped tracery, hood mould, label stops and sill bands. The single central window with animal head label stops. South chancel with 3 C19 pointed arched 3 light windows with cusped tracery, hood mould and sill bands. The single central window truncated and with blocked basket arched C15 doorway with hood mould under. Inner moulded arched west doorway with Tudor style hood mould with foliate carved spandrels. Interior. 3 bay C19 nave arcades with quatrefoil columns and responds with moulded arches. Double chamfered C15 chancel arch with inner order of octagonal responds and moulded capitals. Single quatrefoil to right. Octagonal font, the C15 bowl with cusped panels. Some C18 fragments incorporated in the pulpit. The nave was destroyed during the Commonwealth.

Listing NGR: TF3965418393

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
197939
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.

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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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