CHAPEL OF ST JAMES

CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, FORE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1105858
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, FORE STREET

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Date:: 2002-02-13
Reference:: IOE01/05626/25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1105858
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:: CHAPEL OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, FORE STREET

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:: CHAPEL OF ST JAMES, FORE STREET

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County:: Devon
District:: West Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Okehampton
National Grid Reference:: SX 58849 95214

Details

FORE STREET 1. 5185 (south side) Chapel of St James SX5895 1/5 SX5995 1/5 5.2.52 II* GV 2. C15 west tower. Nave and chancel in one rebuilt in 1862. Perpendicular west tower built of dressed granite in 3 stages with setback buttresses and polygonal north-east stair turret with battlements. Embattled parapet and obelisk pinnacles. Bell openings with two 4-centred arch lights. Three-light west window with reticulated tracery over moulded doorway with 2-centre arch. The Victorian nave and chancel built of Delabole Mate with granite dressings and slate roof. Plain cusped lancets, 2-light on south side. Three-light east window with interjecting glazing bars. Interior: blocked 3-bay north arcade with octagonal granite piers. Small C19 wooden gallery at the west end. Pulpit and reader's desk made up from circa C16/17 carved woodwork. Old bench ends and fragments of tracery, probably from screen, on south wall. Reused circa C18 twisted balusters in late C19 altar rail.

Listing NGR: SX5884995214

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Legacy System number:: 93365
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.