CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREATER

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1178962
Date first listed:: 06-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREATER
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREATER

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1178962
Date first listed:: 06-Oct-1969
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREATER
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREATER

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREATER

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District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Glaisdale
National Park:: NORTH YORK MOORS
National Grid Reference:: NZ 76324 07674

Details

NZ 70 NE GLAISDALE LEALHOLM

8/108 Church of St. James the Greater 6.10.69 II*

Church, 1902 by Temple Moore. Lightly-tooled snecked sandstone with ashlar dressings and plain clay-tiled roof. West tower, 3-bay nave with south porch, 3-bay chancel with small north vestry extension Small scale, modified Early English style.

Slim square 1-stage tower with high chamfered west plinth. Corbelled- out battlemented parapet with waterspout. Double-chamfered tall west lancet; shouldered-arched bell openings. Similar windows in nave. Chancel south windows 2 small lancets and 2 small square- headed chamfered windows. Shouldered-arched priest's door. East window of 3 stepped lancets.

Gabled south porch has heavy battened door with good ironwork. Interior exposed stone with ribbed barreled wood roof. Good woodwork includes heavy pine benches and oak pulpit, lectern and choir seats. Carved marble reredos. Linked sedile and piscina. Mosaic floors in chancel, stepped sanctuary and centre aisle. Pevsner, N. Riding p.227.

Listing NGR: NZ7632407674

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Legacy System number:: 328027
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The North Riding, (1966), 227

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.