Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, QUEENS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245981
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, QUEENS ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1245981
- Date first listed:
- 05-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, QUEENS ROAD
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, QUEENS ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Great Yarmouth (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 52716 06548
Details
GREAT YARMOUTH
TG5206NE QUEEN'S ROAD 839-1/19/145 (South side) 05/08/74 Church of St James
II
Parish church. Nave and chancel 1870-78 by JP Seddon; aisles 1902-8 by Bottle & Olley. Cut and knapped flint with red brick dressings. Slate roofs. Nave, aisles and chancel. EXTERIOR: east end with flushwork panels round the 5-light Geometric east window. Corners of chancel develop into polygonal pinnacles. East end of the aisles with one roundel each, with tracery. North aisle has a 3-bay vestry to the east lit through 3 lancets and with an arched door. West of this are three 3-light arched Perpendicular windows separated by buttresses. Portal at west end of aisle with 4 orders of chamfered brick arches. Above it is a bell-cote suspended between 2 polygonal turrets. West end lit through 2 paired lancets with 2-light Decorated tracery and a rosette above. 3-light Perpendicular south aisle windows. Lean-to aisle roofs and gabled nave roof. INTERIOR: 4-bay arcade of drum piers on tall bases with stiff-leaf capitals supporting pointed brick arches. Yellow and blue brick patterning. Boarded and arched roof. Thin timber arch differentiates nave from chancel. Rafter roofs to aisles.
Listing NGR: TG5271606548
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 468590
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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