CHURCH OF ST JAMES

CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1198203
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE

User submitted image — Uploaded by Bob Kindred This photo may not represent the current condition of the site
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2004-05-23
Reference:: IOE01/12036/03
Rights:: © Mr Mike Withinshaw. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1198203
Date first listed:: 01-Sep-1953
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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:: Suffolk
District:: East Suffolk (District Authority)
Parish:: St. James, South Elmham
National Grid Reference:: TM 32272 81216

Details

SOUTH ELMHAM ST. JAMES CHURCH LANE TM 38 SW

4/53 Church of St. James 1.9.53 - I

Parish church. C12, C13, C14 and C15. Nave, chancel, south porch, south aisle and west tower. In knapped and rubble flint throughout, with traces of old render; coursed rubble in the lower stages of the nave north wall; freestone dressings. Slate roof to nave; lead to south aisle; old plaintiles with fishscale bands to chancel. Wide stepped buttresses to the north and south walls of the nave; diagonal buttress to the east end of the aisle. Norman north doorway to the nave, its pointed arch reconstructed from 2 sections with a double billet moulding; 3 traceried windows, one 3-light and 2 2-light in Perpendicular style in the north wall. The chancel has a C13 lancet: window on the north, 2, later lancets on the south, and a C19 3-light east window with intersecting tracery. The porch exterior is largely C19; open timber roof inside; to the east of the door, a flamboyant-headed niche with a projecting bowl. South door with continuous moulding, and quarter-round mouldings to the hood-mould. C13 south aisle: 2 Y-tracery windows and one Perpendicular, 2- light, square-headed. Squat, unbuttressed west tower, its walls with some black knapped flint, and a flat parapet with a frieze of trefoil stone panels infilled with flint flushwork; a Y-tracery window to each face of the top stage. The interior of the church is considerably Victorianised, with benches, lectern, screen and chancel fittings mainly C19. The splay of a Norman slit window in the north wall of the nave. Late C13 arcade in 4 bays with octagonal piers and double-chamfered arches; the western bay is wider and higher, with a stilted arch reminiscent of the church of All Saints, South Elmham. Square C12 font of Purbeck marble with very worn shallow blank arcading round the bowl, a large central shaft and 4 smaller corner. shafts on a fluted base with a later base below that. Tall suspended C15 font cover. Arms of George III above the tower arch. At the rear of the nave, a section of C14 rood screen, the 5 lights, divided by shafts with moulded capitals and bases, with cusped trefoil heads; boarded base. Square C17 pulpit with applied panels, guilloche and other ornament. Part of rood stairs on the south side of the chancel. Restored C13 angle piscina and remains of sedilia. Verse inscription d.1601 to William Grudgefield in the sanctuary; 3 black ledger slabs to members of the Green family, C17, in the nave. Fragments of old glass in the heads of the nave windows. On the north wall of the nave, 2 figures, a man and a woman, taken from the C15 brass on the nave floor.

Listing NGR: TM3227281216

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 282313
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.