Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166664
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1166664
- Date first listed:
- 12-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, MAIN 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 ST JAMES, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bilbrough
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 53012 46499
Details
SE 54 NW BILBROUGH MAIN STREET (south side)
2/13 Church of St James
GV II
Church. C14 south-east chapel, otherwise 1873. G Fowler Jones. Sandstone ashlar with magnesian limestone plinth, quoins and window dressings, magnesian limestone chapel, Welsh slate roof. North-west tower, nave, chancel, north-east vestry and south-east chapel. Gothic Revival. 3-stage bell-tower has north entrance: single sandstone nook shafts supporting arch with cogged moulding. Slit windows to first 2 stages. Third stage ashlar band. Twin round-arched bell openings to each side. Modillion cogged moulding to heads in chamfered surrounds. South side: single, round-headed window and pair of round-headed windows all in similar surrounds to north side. East end occupied by 2-bay chapel. Centre and diagonal buttresses. 2 pairs of straight-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery to the heads within double-chamfered surrounds. To west end of chapel: blocked pointed doorway in chamfered surround, a single light, straight-headed window with Perpendicular tracery with recut quatrefoil window above in double-chamfered surround. To east end of chapel 3-stepped round-arched windows in double- chamfered surround under badly weathered quatrefoil light. Chancel: vestry and one window to north, 2 windows to south, all as other C19 windows. East end: 3 round-arched windows under quatrefoil light. Interior of chapel contains altar tomb to Thomas, 3rd Baron Fairfax, d 1671. Magnesian limestone ashlar and marble. In pieces awaiting restoration at time of listing. Another of the C16. Magnesian limestone ashlar. Surrounded by scaffolding at time of listing. Pevsner, North Yorkshire, The West Riding, 1979, p 100-101.
Listing NGR: SE5301246499
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 325929
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 100-101
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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