CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Overview
Heritage Category: Listed Building
Grade: II*
List Entry Number: 1125956
Date first listed: 23-Jun-1952
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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Location
Statutory Address: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Cambridgeshire
District: Fenland (District Authority)
Parish: Newton
National Grid Reference: TF 44028 14811
Summary
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History
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Details
TF 41 SW NEWTON CHURCH LANE
6/47 (South Side)
23.6.52 Church of St James
II*
Parish church with C13 nave arcade, but mainly C14 with C15 and C19 alterations.
Rubblestone with brick repairs and plaster rendered. C14 west tower, embattled and of
three stages on splayed plinth. Four stage angle buttressing with newel staircase in
south west corner. Moulded main cornice with two beast gargoyles to each side. West
doorway, two-centred arch, hollow and roll moulded with a moulded label and mask
stops. West window, restored, of three cinquefoil lights with decorated tracery to
head in two-centred arch. Each side of bell-stage has two cinquefoil openings with
quatrefoil to head in two-centred arch. The gable end of the C14 roof is visible in
the east wall of the tower. Nave. Low pitch roof, leaded with clerestorey of five
windows, each of two cinquefoil lights in square heads with label and return stops.
South aisle with three windows of two cinquefoil lights with foiled heads in four-
centred arches. South porch has an outer archway of two hollow and roll moulded
orders, each carried on an attached shaft with moulded capital and base. Chancel,
C15. North and south walls each have two windows of three cinquefoil lights with
vertical tracery in four-centred head. East window restored. C15 and of four
cinquefoil lights with vertical tracery in four-centred head. Interior. North and
south arcades, C13 and of five bays. Two-centred arches of two chamfered orders on
round columns with moulded octagonal capitals and moulded bases. Chancel arch, C14
and of two chamfered orders, the inner on attached shafts forming responds. North of
chancel arch is C15 doorway to C19 rood loft above the screen. The roof was boarded
and painted in C19 and has Minton tiles to floor and stained glass to windows.
VCH (Cambs) Vol.IV, p.204).
Pevnser (Building of England), p.444.
Listing NGR: TF4402814811
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number: 48119
Legacy System: LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Cambridgeshire, (1970)
Salzman, L F , The Victoria History of the County of Cambridgeshire and the Isle of Ely, (1953), 204
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing