CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067273
- Date first listed:
- 19-Aug-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Oct-1994
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, DAISY HILL
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, DAISY HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bolton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Westhoughton
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 65771 04347
Details
The following building:-
WEST HOUGHTON ST JAMES STREET
SD 60 SE (east side) Daisy Hill
12/87 Church of St James
- II
shall be upgraded to Grade II* (star) and the entry amended to read:-
SD 60 SE WEST HOUGHTON DAISY HILL
(east side)
12/87 Church of St James
- 19.8.86 II*
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12/87 WESTHOUGHTON ST. JAMES STREET
SD 60 SE (east side)
Daisy Hill
12/87 Church of
St. James
-
- II
Church. 1879-81. By Paley and Austin. Brick and terracotta
with slate roof. Nave, chancel, north transept and vestry
and south bell turret. Nave of 3 irregular bays has sill
course and top cornice and parapet; coped gables. Windows
have Perpendicular tracery of 3 lights, the western bay on
north side has no window, the eastern bay on south side has
paired 2-light windows; weathered buttresses. Gabled north
porch; pointed entrance with carved spandrels, gable has
cusped-arched panelling. West end has 5-light window with
moulded arch in square architrave with blind tracery
spandrels. Transept has hipped roof, 3-light window and
projecting entrance under hipped roof. Organ loft has
gable-end straight-headed tracery window of 2 lights with
transom. Gabled vestry has 2-light segmental-headed east
window, straight-headed window and entrance to north.
Chancel has 2 deep, gabled buttresses flanking segmental-
headed east window of 6 lights over later lean-to shed; 4-
light segmental-headed window to north and south. bell
turret breaks forward. Pointed entrance and round-headed
lights to windows to lowest stage. 2nd stage has 2-light
traceried window to left of stair lights. Top stage has
flat gabled buttresses and 2 open traceried bell openings
and traceried gable ends; top gabled bell opening has
weather cock. Interior: Nave has king post trusses and
boarded roof. Wainscotting and sill course. Contemporary
light fittings. Chancel arch on responds; transept arch with
no capitals. Timber pulpit on stone base has frieze of
lights with rectangular pierced panels above. Chancel has
segmental-pointed timber tunnel vault. 2-bay arcade to
organ loft. Windows have inner mullions. High reredos with
linen -fold panelling and cusped panelling, high cupboard
and cresting, the altar moved forward. Sedilia and piscina
with traceried heads. Timber organ case. East window by
Morris and Co., 1897-8; Epiphany and Saints, "One of their
(Paley and Austin's) most masterly performances",
N. Pevsner "Buildings of England: South Lancashire", p.104.
Listing NGR: SD6577104347
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210567
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969), 104
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing