Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1094078
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09169/12
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1094078
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1963
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- East Hampshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Wield
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 62841 38753
Details
SU 63 NW
6/5
31/07/63
WIELD
UPPER WIELD
Church of St James
I
Parish church. c1150, some C15 details, and restoration of 1884. Plastered
walls and tiled roof. Norman aisleless nave and chancel, with a small vestry
at the west end. The chancel has a small niche on the north side of the east
window, and there is a priest's door, the chancel arch is round and rests on
plain and chamfered abaci, and there are squints on each side. The nave has
2 windows on each side with deep splays, and there are north and south doors
(the north blocked); there is a wide west door leading to a small vestry, and a
shallow west gallery. The font is Norman, being a square Purbeck slab with
arcading, resting on a drum and 4 detached columns (brought to the church in
1900 following its discovery in Winchester Close). Fragments of wall painting
exist, including a Royal Coat of Arms (of Queen Anne) above the chancel arch,
part of the preservations on the north wall, and a consecration cross. A
wall monument of 1617 hangs on the north wall of the chancel, and opposite
is the very fine tomb of 1617, with effigies of William Waloppe and his wife,
set within an elaborate classical surround, of marble and alabaster. The
exterior walls are cemented over flintwork, with stone dressings, including
perpendicular cusped single lights in the nave, and a Norman south door with
inset columns at each side; the east wall (1884) is of flint with corner stepped
buttresses and a 3-light geometrical window. At the west end is a small
boarded bell-turret, and attached to the west wall (occupied by a tower up to
1810) a small boarded structure with a hipped tile roof.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 142043
- 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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