Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083826
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1083826
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
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 JAMES, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulrome
- National Grid Reference:
- TA 14440 58062
Details
ULROME CHURCH STREET TA 15 NW (west side) Lisset 7/51 Church of St James 30.6.66 GV II
Church. c1120 origins with extensive later rebuilding of probably early C14, early-mid C18 and 1876 by Hugh Roumieu Gough for John Dent. Pebbledashed brick, the west and east ends partly exposed to reveal pinkish- red narrow brick in irregular English bond and pebbles, and with ashlar dressings. Plain tile roof. 2-bay nave with south porch and lower, narrower 2-bay chancel. West end has C14 2-ogeed-light window, partly recut. Nave south side. End buttresses with offsets. Ashlar plinth. Wooden south porch to first bay. Within a round-arched Norman doorway: plain jambs have capitals with ball moulding, supporting round arch fretted with lozenges and zigzag moulding, within a C19 plank door. Eroded shield or mask above. C19 2-ogeed-light window. North side has similar single light window. Moulded kneelers, ashlar copings, bell turret to east end of nave with 2 round arches. Chancel, south side: plinth. 2 single trefoil lights, that to left is C19, that to right is C14, partly recut, both with quoined jambs. 2-course eaves band. North side: plinth, 2-course eaves band. Moulded kneelers, copings, cross at apex. East end has chamfered plinth. C14 3-stepped-ogeed-light window, partly recut. Plain interior. Pointed C19 chamfered chancel arch on moulded corbels. To east wall a Norman column with chevron-moulded capital and with wish-bone hood above, set into wall. To south side of chancel a chamfered triangular piscina. 2 plain tablets to Christopher Hildyard, d 1728, and to John Dawson, d 1801. Bell turret houses the earliest dated bell in Great Britain of 1254, inscribed "WCC/- IIII". East window has stained glass by Kempe. Pevsner N, Yorkshire, York and The East Riding, 1978, p 304. George Poulson, History and Antiquities of Holderness, Hull, 1840, Vol 1, pp 259-60.
Listing NGR: TA1444058062
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 167806
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire - York and the East Riding, (1972), 304
Poulson, G, The History and Antiquities of Holderness, (1840), 259-60
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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