CHURCH OF ST JAMES

CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MERE GREEN ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075801
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MERE GREEN ROAD

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Date:: 1999-09-26
Reference:: IOE01/00596/16
Rights:: © Mr J Martin. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075801
Date first listed:: 26-Aug-1976
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MERE GREEN ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MERE GREEN ROAD

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

District:: Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Sutton Coldfield
National Grid Reference:: SP 12029 98936

Details

SP 19 NW 2/115 5104

MERE GREEN ROAD (North Side) Church of St James

II

Parish of St James before 1853, since renamed Parish of Hill. Main building, 1854-5 by D R Hill, has nave, west tower. Stone dressed cement rendering, lancet windows, buttresses, pinnacles to tower. Ashlar east end in Arts and Crafts Gothic, 1906-8 by C E Bateman. Elaborate painted and carved decoration. Ornate organ case. See The Builder, 1926, vol 131, pp 780-1.

Listing NGR: SP1202998936

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 216608
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
'The Builder' in The Builder, , Vol. 131, (1926), 780-1

Legal

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