Church of St James the Less
Church of St James the Less, Henley Road, Stubbings
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117597
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James the Less
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St James the Less, Henley Road, Stubbings
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1117597
- Date first listed:
- 22-Sept-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James the Less
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St James the Less, Henley Road, Stubbings
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 Less, Henley Road, Stubbings
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bisham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 85016 81658
Details
SU 88 SE
6/10
BISHAM
HENLEY ROAD (north side)
Stubbings
Church of St James the Less
II
Small church.1850-54 by R.C. Carpenter, vestry by Gareth Slater, added 1962 from materials from a church at Braywood near Windsor, which was demolished in the same year. Flint with Bath stone dressings; steeply pitched tile roof, lower over chancel, with crested ridge and coped gables. Four-bay nave, north aisle, south porch, one-bay chancel with north aisle and vestry. Windows are mostly lancets.
Nave, south front: two-light cusped window on left. Timber framed gabled porch with cusped bargeboard, arch braced entrance, and six, glazed, cusped sidelights on low wooden panels on either side; pair of steel outer doors with pointed heads. Planked inner door with iron scroll-work in pointed arch with chamfered jambs and hood-mould. Two lancets to right of porch, and one offset buttress.
West end: gable on left to north aisle, with one lancet. Gable on right to nave with two similar lancets but taller; cinquefoil window centrally over these. Two buttresses. Bellcote with bell in pointed, cusped, arched opening.
North aisle: three lancets.
Chancel: a single lancet to north and south; three-light curvilinear traceried east window, and similar two-light window on north. Small link to vestry has a two-light leaded cusped east window, and a similar window to gabled vestry.
Interior: Nave with curved queen strut roof, and two sets of butt purlins; aisle roof similar. Four-bay arcade to aisle. Delicate brass chandeliers, those in the nave surmounted by a cross, the one in the chancel by a crown. Good encaustic paintings in the chancel, on either side, with arcades of stylised trees and circular motifs.
Listing NGR: SU8501681658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 40783
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 230
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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