St Jamess Church
ST JAMESS CHURCH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210854
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- St Jamess Church
- Statutory Address:
- ST JAMESS CHURCH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210854
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- St Jamess Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- ST JAMESS CHURCH
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:
- ST JAMESS CHURCH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Chedington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 48871 05554
Details
CHEDINGTON CHEDINGTON VILLAGE ST 40 NE 11.11.66 2/183 St James's Church - II
Parish Church. 1840-1, by R Carver of Taunton. Organ chamber, Baptistery, south porch added by G Vialls. Altogether: Nave, Chancel, South Porch, Baptistery (west end), South Vestry, Organ Chamber. Ham stone ashlar walls with a chamfered plinth. Slate roof with stone gable-copings. Stone bell-cote at west gable with a pinnacle over. Cross at east gable. Nave, of 4 bays, separated by buttresses. 2-light Perp-style windows. East window, of 3 lights with curvilinear tracery. Loop-hole-cross over. Baptistery, lower with diagonal buttresses, 2-light stone mullions with Perp tracery. Labels have foliage stops throughout, South porch with 3-centred arch and moulded jambs. Label with angel-stops. Stone gable- coping with cross at apex. Scallop-shell motif above doorway. 2-leaf plank door. Interior: fittings removed. Chedington Church is now redundant. Source: RCHM Dorset I, p89(1).
Listing NGR: ST4887105554
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 395430
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 89
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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