Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1151867
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1151867
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Ravenfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 48587 95452
Details
RAVENFIELD CHURCH LANE SK49NE (north end, off) 1/78 Church of St. James 29.3.68 II* Church. 1756. By John Carr for Mrs. Elizabeth Parkin of Ravenfield Hall (demolished). Ashlar sandstone, Welsh slate roof. 3-bay single cell with tower rising above west gable entrance and with apsidal east end. In Gothick style. West end: plinth. Nosed steps to central part flanked by pilasters with moulded plinths. Central panelled door in swept-shouldered architrave beneath consoled cornice; 2-light window over in raised ogee-headed surround set beneath pediment linking pilasters. Outer bays have corner pilasters and upswept coping with obelisk finial and scrolled brackets against the tower. Tower rises over entrance and has corner strips flanking west clock in shaped panel, ogee-headed 2-light belfry openings have Y-tracery with louvres; cornice with corner obelisks set round concave base to a ball-finialled spirelet. Sides of tower have cruciform slits in quatrefoil panels below the belfry stage. Nave: Y-traceried, 2-light, ogee-headed windows with shaped sills and raised, chamfered surrounds; cornice and coped parapet with corner obelisks. Apse: canted projection with east window as nave flanked by matching blind openings; hipped roof abuts coped east gable. Interior: 1806 plaque in lobby inscribed 'This Church was erected / by Mrs. ELIZABETH PARKIN / Lady of this Manor / in the Year 1756'. Staircase to west gallery with wreathed handrail and turned wooden balusters; fielded panelling to nave dado, gallery door and gallery balustrade which also have ogee-headed panels on the uprights; twisted-baluster communion rail. Other fittings of later date. Apse flanked by plaster reliefs of draped urns in the style of Carr. Monuments: south wall has flat-obelisk wall monument to Eliz. Parkin (d1766);C18 and C19 urns to Bosville and 0sborne families share its base. On north wall: panel by Fisher of York to Thos, Bosville (d1771) et al. has pelican on sarcophagus; to its right monument to George Westbie (d1685), an Ionic aedicule with broken segmental pediment. Hatchments and arms of George III over west gallery.
Listing NGR: SK4858795452
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335953
- 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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