Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SUSSEX GARDENS W2
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1237437
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SUSSEX GARDENS W2
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1237437
- Date first listed:
- 25-Sept-1951
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SUSSEX GARDENS W2
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SUSSEX GARDENS W2
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 26632 80923
Details
TQ 2680 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SUSSEX GARDENS, W2 65/8 25.9.51 Church of St. James GV II* Church. 1881 by G.E. Street, with west chapel (formerly chancel) of 1841-3 by Goldicutt and Gutch. Church oriented with chancel to west. Decorated style. Yellow brick. Knapped flints and stone dressings. 4-bay nave, clerestory, lower chancel. 2 stage tower to east with spire recessed behind quatrefoil parapet, corner pinnacles with flying buttresses; and 5-light window to base. 3-light windows to aisles, with flowing tracery; set in knapped flint walls. Clerestory with paired 2-light traceried windows. Interior: 2-bay chancel with 7-light flowing traceried east window, and timber tierceron vaulting. 3 oculi above chancel arch. Nave with cloistered piers to pointed nave arcade; coved roof to nave adorned with figures of angels; marble cladding to spandrels of arcade and to aisle walls. South east (liturgical) chapel with central timber column. Victorian stained glass to rest of windows. Marble font, pulpit and inlaid reredos. London Vol II, N Pevsner.
Listing NGR: TQ2663280923
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428698
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cherry, B, Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: London 2: South, (1983)
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