Church of St Barnabas and St James the Greater
CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS AND ST JAMES THE GREATER, ST BARNABAS ROAD E17
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1065600
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1981
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Barnabas and St James the Greater
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS AND ST JAMES THE GREATER, ST BARNABAS ROAD E17
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1065600
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1981
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 24-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Barnabas and St James the Greater
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARNABAS AND ST JAMES THE GREATER, ST BARNABAS ROAD E17
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 BARNABAS AND ST JAMES THE GREATER, ST BARNABAS ROAD E17
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Waltham Forest (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 37224 88298
Details
TQ 38 NE ST BARNABAS ROAD Walthamstow, E17 2/14 (east side)
24.2.81 Church of St Barnabas and St James the Greater (formerly listed as Church of St Barnabas)
GV II*
Church. 1902. By W D Caröe. Red brick, stone dressings. Low pitched slate roof to parapet. Aisled 6-bay nave, clerestory; lower aisled 3-bay chancel; north-west and south-west porches. Narrow square north-west tower with splayed corners, segmental openings, buttresses and crenellated parapet; narrow shingle spire. Arts and Crafts Perpendicular manner. Segmental entrance in gabled south porch. Brick and stone interior. Stone clustered piers with crenellated capitals. Openwork brick band above; 3-light clerestory windows. Low roof in Tudor manner, rising from stone wall shafts. Pointed chancel arch on carved corbels. 7-light east window with stained glass by Clayton and Bell. Furniture by Caröe, including lectern, pulpit, Purbeck marble traceried font, etc. Lettering to foundation stone at east end understood to be a very early work by Eric Gill.
Listing NGR: TQ3722488298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 206926
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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