CHURCH OF ST JAMES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1093029
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1957
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1093029
Date first listed:: 26-Apr-1957
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES

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County:: Hampshire
District:: Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
Parish:: Bramley
National Grid Reference:: SU 64494 58988

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This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/07/2011

SU 65 NW 5/32 26.4.57

BRAMLEY BRAMLEY CHURCH OF ST JAMES

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C12 to C20 (all periods). A Norman single cell, with an addition to the south at the east end of the nave (being the Brocas Aisle of 1802 by John Soane), a west tower of 1636, and south porch of 1806. Along the north wall are 4 windows 3 being original small round-leaded lights with deep splays ending in rolls, the 4th (a replacement of the C15) having 3 cusped lights containing stained glass of circa 1470. The south wall has a C14 window at the east end, a priest's door, a high niche (former access to a rood screen), a low pointed arch to the Brocas Aisle, a filled Norman south door, a C14 3-light window with some stained glass, and a C15 moulded south door. Fittings include a C13 shaft piscina, a C17 communion rail, chancel seats by temple Moore, a C15 screen (restored) wall monuments, C16 benches, C18 pulpit, and several important wall paintings (a murder of St Thomas a Becket, St Christoper, 2 conservation crosses and lettered texts), a Purbeck font on later shafts, and a west gallery of 1722 (strengthened by Ionic piers when the organ was added in 1884). The Brocas Aisle has a plaster 'thin' vaulted ceiling, a restored 'Perpendicular' window with Flemish glass of circa 1500, brasses set in floor,slab monuments, 4 hatchments, a wall monument of 1839 and 2 Royal Coat of Arms; in the middle of the floor is a large sculptured marble tomb monument to Sir Bernard Brocas of 1777. Within the tower are 2 painted prescription tablets. The plaster barrel vault of the nave continues above the chancel with wooden ribs and panels. Externally, the church has a tiled roof, with 3 dormers. Flint walls (in part rendered) have stone dressings, buttresses. Red brickwork is used for the tower, porch, heating chamber and the Brocas Aisle (with a brick incised DC 1802). The tower has thin bands separating the three stages, a crenellated parapet, coupled belfry lights, a 'Perpendicular' west window, and a high plinth.

Listing NGR: SU6448658938

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Legacy System number:: 138495
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.