Church of Our Lady and St James
CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST JAMES, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151051
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady and St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST JAMES, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1151051
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Our Lady and St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF OUR LADY AND ST JAMES, WEST STREET
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 OUR LADY AND ST JAMES, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Barnsley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE3540103556
Details
SE30SE
2/108
WORSBROUGH
WEST STREET
(north side)
Church of Our Lady and St. James
GV
II
Church. 1902 by T. H. and F. Healey of Bradford, patron S. J. Cooper
(Plan register, 1901; Kelly's Directory, 1912). Thinly-coursed sandstone,
graduated Westmorland slate roof. 3-bay nave with south porch, narrower chancel
with south tower in angle with nave, adjoining vestry on east. Nave: porch to
bay 1 has double-chamfered arch with floral-stopped hoodmould, gable copings with
cross. String course on right beneath windows of 3 : 2 and 1 lights, buttress
between the first two. West window has buttress between 2 sets of 3 lancets with
hoodmoulds; vesica. Tower: south priest's door with string course rising as
hoodmould. Quoined slit windows beneath offset ashlar belfry stage having
semi-octagonal corner piers and flanking 2-light trefoiled openings; continuous
hoodmould. Short lead-covered spire with corner spirelets and turret at north-east
corner. Gabled south vestry has ashlar panel with 3-light mullioned window;
central light taller, transomed and cusped. Chancel windows of 2 and 1 lights,
corbel table to ashlar-coped parapet. East window of 3 cusped lights divided by
shafts, outer lights blind. East and west gable copings with crosses.
Interior: simple Gothic-Revival styled interior with marble font and wall paintings
above chancel arch. Originally dedicated to St. James, now in Roman Catholic use,
the Anglican congregation being accommodated at the Church of St. Thomas and
St. James (q.v.). Adjoining buildings at east end not of special interest.
Worsbrough U.D.C. Plan Register 1901 plan 22 (held in Barnsley Local Studies Library).
Kelly's Directory, West Riding, 1912, vol 1, p996.
Listing NGR: SE3540103556
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 333984
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Yorkshire West Riding, Vol. 1, (1912), 996
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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