Parish Church of St James the Elder
PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE ELDER
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1114993
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St James the Elder
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE ELDER
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1114993
- Date first listed:
- 03-Mar-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St James the Elder
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE ELDER
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE ELDER
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Horton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7660185045
Details
ST 78 NE
5/70
3.3.61
HORTON
Parish Church of St. James the Elder
G.V.
I
Parish Church (Anglican). C12; rebuilt C14, altered C15 and C16 and restored
in 1865. West tower; nave; north aisle; south porch; chancel. Ashlar and
coursed squared rubble; Cotswold stone slate roofs behind plain parapets.
West tower: Perpendicular style, of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses which end
in pilasters with pinnacles; embattled parapet. 3-light bell chamber windows
with stone louvres and cusped heads to the tracery; 3-light west window with
small embattled transoms to the tracery, all under a hood mould. Nave: two
3-light windows, as the west window but without the embattled transoms;
projection for rood stair. South porch: Perpendicular style, 2 storeys with
diagonal buttresses; polygonal stair turret surmounted by a spirelet at north
west corner; chamfered doorway and 2-light casement above. Chancel: much
restored; 2 bays with windows similar to the nave; priest's door; 5-light east
window similar to the west window. North aisle and north chapel: 3 windows
similar to west window; buttresses with off-sets; north door with chamfered
surround. Interior. South porch: ribbed tierceron-vault with Agnus Dei on
central boss; corner jamb shafts with carved capitals, minstrels to the north,
grotesque beasts to the south; moulded doorcase with 4-centred head, square hood
mould; image niche over; ogee headed stoup. Nave: 3 bay C14 arcade,
cylindrical piers with octagonal caps; chamfered arches, the respond of the west
arch rests on a grotesque corbel; Perpendicular tower arch with concave moulding;
Perpendicular chancel arch and arches to north chapel, cylindrical shafts; wagon
roofs. Remains of ashlar rood stair with 4-centre doorways, one of which leads
to an enriched Jacobean pulpit on a C15 panelled, vase-shaped base. Font: C12,
recut in C17; panelled octagonal bowl on circular base, C17 cover. In the
chancel is a pillar piscina with a carved capital and an octagonal shaft.
Glass: reassembled mediaeval fragments in the east window of the north chapel.
Monuments. North chapel: Ann Austin, died 1731, grey and white marble,
baroque tablet with volutes; William Paston, died c.1673, baroque, grey and
white marbles, segmental pediment, winged cherubic heads, gadrooned base;
William Paston, died 1769, by James Paty of Bristol, coloured and white marbles,
gadrooned sarcophagus, heraldry and inscribed plinth. John Paston, died 1737,
grey and white marble, flat obelisk inscribed panel with gadrooned base,
heraldry. Nave: Baron de Tuyll, 1913, by W.C.H. King, Art Nouveau plaque,
female figures to sides of anurn. Hatchment in tower. (Verey D, The Buildings
of England : Gloucestershire ; The Cotswolds, 1970).
Listing NGR: ST7660185045
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 34694
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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