Church of St. James

Church of St. James, Chestnut Grove

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075889
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: Church of St. James
Statutory Address:: Church of St. James, Chestnut Grove

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1075889
Date first listed:: 22-Jul-1983
List Entry Name:: Church of St. James
Statutory Address 1:: Church of St. James, Chestnut Grove

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Church of St. James, Chestnut Grove

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

District:: Sefton (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SJ 33894 95913

Details

SJ 39 NW 9/14 BOOTLE CHESTNUT GROVE (east side) Church of St. James

22.07.83

II Catholic church. 1885. By C. Hadfield of M.E. Hadfield and Sons, Sheffield. Stone with slate roof. Nave with aisles and south west tower, chancel and north and south chapels.

Five-bay nave has three-light windows with Geometrical tracery between deep buttresses; clerestory has paired windows with Y-tracery. West end of north aisle forms chapel, with canted end, two-light trefoil-headed west window, tall buttresses and pavilion roof. Tower has slender buttresses; three-light window over south entrance. Octagonal top stage with octagonal pinnacles, two-light louvred bell openings, gargoyles and embattled parapet. West end of nave has five-light window over gabled entrance of two orders and traceried tympanum, flanking octagonal pinnacles. East end of chancel has angle buttresses with gabled pinnacles, five-light east window with trefoil frieze above, and three-light window in gable. North chapel has canted end with 1:2:1 light windows; south chapel has five-light window and gable to south with rose window.

Interior has tall six-bay nave arcades with alternate circular and octagonal piers; roof has moulded collar trusses. Three-bay arcade to baptistery with west organ loft over. Chancel and chapels have rib vaults; marble continuous altar rail and reredoses. Chancel has reredos with 15 statues in niches, altar has arched ciborium. Alabaster pulpit on south side of nave has relief panel and statues. Confessionals and passage to presbytery on south side of church.

Listing NGR: SJ3389495913

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Legacy System number:: 216414
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.