Church of Saint James the Apostle
CHURCH OF SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE, RAMSDEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203923
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint James the Apostle
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE, RAMSDEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203923
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jun-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Saint James the Apostle
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE, RAMSDEN ROAD
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 SAINT JAMES THE APOSTLE, RAMSDEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 91248 17037
Details
SD 91 NW WARDLE RAMSDEN ROAD (west side)
4/154 Church of Saint 29.6.1966 James the Apostle
G.V. II
Church. 1856. By G. Shaw. Tooled ashlar with slate roof. Nave with clerestory, aisle, south-west tower which is placed south of the aisles and west door. The chancel has a north organ chamber and vestry. 5-bay nave and aisle with triple-lancet clerestory windows and small coupled-lancet aisle windows. Stone plinth, continuous sill and hood- moulds and weathered buttresses. 3-bay chancel, angled buttresses with 3-lancet east window, vestry with pinnacle- like chimney. Steeply pitched roof with coped gables. The 4-stage tower has angled buttresses, banding on arched south door, lancet openings to each stage and a broach spire with gableted spire-lights. Interior: the chamfered nave arcade rests on circular columns with moulded capitals. The roofs have arch braced trusses.
Listing NGR: SD9124817037
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 358986
- 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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