Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098907
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1098907
- Date first listed:
- 06-Mar-1967
- 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.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Canon Frome
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 64490 43467
Details
CANON FROME CP CANON FROME SO 64 SW
5/115 Church of St James
6.3.67
GV II
Parish church. West tower 1680, remainder rebuilt 1860 by G F Bodley. Red brick in English bond to west tower with sandstone plinth and ashlar dressings, dressed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings to remainder, slate roofs. West tower, nave with north aisle and south porch, chancel with south organ chamber. West tower: three stages, three string courses and parapet with moulded cornice, pyramidal roof with weathervane, semi-circular headed lancet vents with transoms to belfy stage. Nave: two bays, raised verges; semi-circular headed lancet to left and 3-light window with quatrefoil in central roundel and moulded label to right of gabled porch with pointed arch headed entrance of two chamfered orders and label with zig-zag enrichment; chancel: two bays with raised verge and with single lancet to right of forward projecting gable of organ chamber with loop in gable and shouldered arched head to doorway, octagonal shaft to chimney. Interior: trussed rafter roof, two-bay arcade to north aisle with central clustered pier and arches of two orders, outer chamfered, inner moulded, rectangular plan responds, moulded bases and capitals, blind arcading to north and east walls of north aisle, rose window to east wall of north aisle with good stained glass. Chancel: trussed rafter roof, ceiled to eastern bay, chancel arch of two orders, outer chamfered and inner moulded order dying into decorative corbel. The church is one of G F Bodley's earliest commissions.
Listing NGR: SO6449043467
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 153080
- 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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