Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117084
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1965
- 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:
- 1117084
- Date first listed:
- 11-Feb-1965
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 03-Aug-1972
- 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:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bredicot
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 90507 55007
Details
BREDICOT
648/1/71 CHURCH OF ST JAMES 11-FEB-65 (Formerly listed as: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS)
II
Medieval church of c1300 restored in 1843 by A.E. Perkins.
MATERIALS: Coursed rubble blue lias with sandstone dressings and tile roof.
PLAN: Nave and chancel under a single roof, with south porch and west bellcote.
EXTERIOR: In a simple Gothic style, the church is buttressed, including diagonal buttresses and earlier south-east angle buttresses. The south doorway has a continuous moulding and the blocked north doorway is similar. The timber-framed porch has an arched entrance with cusping in the spandrels, and blind cusped arches to the barge boards. Windows are 2-light with Y-tracery, two in the south and north walls, one in the west wall and a similar east window of 3 lights with intersecting tracery. The gabled west bellcote has a single ogee cusped opening for a bell.
INTERIOR: The 3-bay roof has queen posts strengthened by arched braces, and is on brackets. There is no structural break between nave and chancel. Walls are plastered. Floors are C19 tiles, except for raised wood floors below benches. The porch is laid with C15 tiles.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: The C14 octagonal font has cusped arches on a round stem. There is a neo-classical tablet to John Davidson (d 1837) and 3 C19 brass plaques. A metal Royal Arms, in relief, is Georgian of the early C19. Benches with poppy heads are part of the 1843 restoration, as is the Gothic communion rail with open arcading. The later stone polygonal pulpit has blind Gothic panels. A nave south window shows SS James and Peter, c1900, probably by Clayton and Bell.
HISTORY: A church of c1300, restored in 1843 when the bellcote was added. Benches also date from the restoration.
SOURCES: Brooks, A and Pevsner, N., The Buildings of England: Worcestershire (2007), 162.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St James, Bredicot, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a small rural church including medieval fabric, including floor tiles. * The church retains external architectural character and interior detail such as the benches that are typical of the simple Gothic style favoured in the 1840s.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 442246
- 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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