Remains of St James's Church
REMAINS OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH, CASTLE HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070325
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of St James's Church
- Statutory Address:
- REMAINS OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH, CASTLE HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070325
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Jan-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Remains of St James's Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- REMAINS OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH, CASTLE HILL ROAD
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:
- REMAINS OF ST JAMES'S CHURCH, CASTLE HILL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dover
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 32261 41553
Details
In the entry for:-
TR 3241 WOOLCOMBER STREET
(East side)
1/15 Remains of St James's
Church
GV 30.6.49 II
the address shall be amended to read:
CASTLE HILL ROAD
1/15 Remains of St James's
Church
GV 30.6.49 II
------------------------------------
WOOLCOMBER STREET
l. (East Side)
1050
Remains of St James's
Church
TR 3241 1/15 30.6.49.
II GV
2.
Originally a Norman building but restored in the C19. There is a Norman
zigzag arch and the side elevation, built of flints, has a blocked entrance
filled with Norman fragments. The rest of the church is of Caen stone, with
stone quoins. There is a Cl4 addition on the South side of the Nave which
was used until 185l as a Court house for the Chancery and Admiralty Courts
of the Cinque Ports, and for the Court of Lodemanage. The last Court of
Lodemanage was held by the Duke of Wellington here in 1851. The seat and
bench used by the Duke of Wellington and the Barons of the Cinque Ports have
been transferred to St Mary's Church. This building was not used as a church
since the middle of the C19 when the garrison Church in the Castle was restored.
The building was very badly damaged by shelling from the French coast during
the last war. AM.
Remains of St. James's Church and White Horse Inn form a group.
Listing NGR: TR3226141553
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 177821
- 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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