CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1204117
- Date first listed:
- 21-Nov-1966
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Medway (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Cooling
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75624 75949
Details
COOLING CP
TQ 77 NE
2/23
21.11.66
Church of St. James
GV I
Parish church. C13-C15 with some C19 restoration. West tower, nave with
south porch and chancel with south vestry. Ragstone, chalk and flint, somewhat
repaired in sandstone. Plain tiled roofs. West tower with diagonal buttresses
and with probably reset west window with cusped intersecting tracery. Nave
windows of early C14 with cemented tracery. Chancel window-tracery of C15.
Interior: 6-bay chancel, with 6 blank arches to north and south on marble shafts
springing from marble benches. Arches run to triple sedilia and double piscina,
with shafts and trefoils. South vestry with walls decorated with cockle-shells.
Fittings: Font: C13. Square bowl on 5 squat piers with trefoiled arches sunk
into each side. C18 pulpit. 6 oak benches with poppy-heads. Vested in the
care of the Redundant Churches Fund. BOE, Kent, I, 238.
Listing NGR: TQ7636776264
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172853
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 238
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing