Church of St James the Great
CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, KIRKGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224813
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James the Great
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, KIRKGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1224813
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James the Great
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, KIRKGATE
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 THE GREAT, KIRKGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Silsden
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 04152 46451
Details
SE0446 SILSDEN C.P. KIRKGATE (west side)
9/159 Church of St. James the Great
GV II
Church. c 1816, tower raised 1896 by George Jacques. Hammer- dressed stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof, tile ridge, lead spire. Nave, south porch, shallow chancel and slender west tower. Simple Gothic Revival style. 3-stage tower; 1st stage has doorway with monolithic jambs approached up flight of stone steps and single chamfered light over with hood mould. West face has 2-light cusped window. 2nd stage has similar 2-light belfry with iron-grille. 3rd stage has clock set in each face and shaped parapet surmounted by needle spirelet with weather-vane. Nave has 3 bays of 2-light arched windows, coped gables with kneelers. Gabled porch to left has 2-centred arched doorway with colonnettes and hoodmould. Chancel, under lower roof-line and set back, has chamfered plinth and east window of 4-lights with quatrefoils.
Interior: single vessel with west organ gallery carried on Doric columns. 8-bay nave with arch-braced king-post roof with turned king posts. Stained glass windows. Pine pews. The church originally built 1712, is as it was altered in 1816.
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London, 1979) p. 484.
Listing NGR: SE0415246451
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 418945
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 484
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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