Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, BARRY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209984
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, BARRY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209984
- Date first listed:
- 08-Mar-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, BARRY 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, BARRY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 93776 05459
Details
OLDHAM
SD90NW BARRY STREET
780-1/1/14 (West side)
Church of St James
II
Parish church. 1835. By Francis Goodwin; chancel added 1883 by
John Lowe of Manchester. Ashlar faced with Welsh slate roof.
West tower, nave with integral aisles, and shallow canted
apse. Partially projecting west tower with wide western
entrance in deep moulded archway. 2-light window over doorway.
Gabletted clasping buttresses. Parapet over second stage with
integral surround for clock (the clock itself now removed) and
high pinnacles at angles.
Flying buttresses to octagonal lantern of bell chamber.
Vestries added north and south of tower. South doorway giving
access to inner staircase lobby. Aisles of 6 bays divided by
buttresses, each with 2-light Decorated traceried window with
cast-iron tracery. Shallow canted apsidal chancel with 2-light
windows.
INTERIOR: nave arcade of 4 bays formerly 5, the eastern bay
now forming part of the chancel. Western bay beneath gallery
now separated by glazed screen. Chamfered piers carry moulded
arches with foliate capitals. Galleries on 3 sides, carried
across west by two rows of cast-iron columns. Plain ribbed
panelled ceiling, the principal timbers carried from corbels.
Chancel screen and rood loft, 1920 as war memorial. Central
ogee arch surmounted by crucifix, canopy enriched with
vine-scroll decoration. Flanking wall panels with inscriptions
beneath statues of Saints Michael and George.
Apsidal chancel with plain panelled ceiling. Blind traceried
wall panelling includes sedilia and canopy over reredos.
Stained glass: east window, undated unsigned memorial window,
probably circa 1880-90 in the style of Kempe. Small panels in
south chancel chapel representing Saints George and Joan of
Arc, with architectural drawings as backcloth. Various windows
in south and north aisles, 1920's, one signed Shrigley and
Hunt, Lancaster.
Various marble wall tablets, including an ornate memorial with
high relief figures in traceried niches to the Rev. Robert
Gooday, d.1878.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner, Nikolaus: South
Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).
Listing NGR: SD9377605459
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 29 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 388875
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 29 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26524
War Memorials Online, accessed 29 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/177506
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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