Church of St James
Church of St James, Church Lane, Barkham
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118116
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St James, Church Lane, Barkham
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1118116
- Date first listed:
- 26-Jan-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St James, Church Lane, Barkham
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, Church Lane, Barkham
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wokingham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Barkham
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 78405 66430
Details
SU 76 NE
9/38
BARKHAM
CHURCH LANE (east side)
Church of St. James
26.1.67
GV
II
Parish church. 1862 by John B. Clacy and son, in the Early English style, on an old site; chancel and transepts 1887. Flint with Bath stone dressings, tiled, coped, gabled roof. Chancel, north and south transepts, north vestry, and nave with a south tower. The tower is in three stages; the lower stage has set-back buttresses and serves as a porch. The top stage is of wood and has a small octagonal shingled spire. The windows are pointed and trefoiled.
Interior: the nave has five bays of arch braced collar trusses with nailhead ornament, and several C18 memorial slabs in the floor. The font is stone and late C18. In a recess on the east wall of the porch is a late C13 oak effigy of a lady in a long loose dress and linen head-dress. Both the hands are missing and the face is damaged.
Listing NGR: SU7840566430
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 41518
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 75
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1923), 240
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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