CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT

CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247949
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1247949
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, CHURCH LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, CHURCH LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Nottinghamshire
District:: Broxtowe (District Authority)
Parish:: Brinsley
National Grid Reference:: SK 46110 49191

Details

SK 44 NE BRINSLEY CHURCH LANE (west side)

2/2 Church of St.James the Great

II

Parish church. 1837. Chancel 1877. Plain and rockfaced ashlar. Plain tile and slate gabled roofs. Partial plinth, crenellated parapets and gable, coped east gable with cross, ashlar side wall stack. windows are single lancets with iron lattice glazing. Nave with 2 west towers. Chancel, vestry and south porch. Nave west end has 3 single lancets and above, blank trefoil. Flanked by single octagonal crenellated towers, each with 4 chamfered openings. North tower has door in return angle. Nave, 4 bays, has buttresses and 4 lancets on each side. Chancel, 2 bays, has to north lean-to organ chamber with a lancet in return angle to east. East end has 2 pairs of corner buttresses and 3 stepped single lancets. South side has a buttress and 2 lancets. Vestry, single storey, extended mid C20, has coped gable. Windows are stone mullioned casements. Buttressed west side has casement and shouldered door. North and east sides have each a casement. Gabled south porch has pointed south doorway with traceried overlight. Above, blank trefoil. To east, a casement. Inner door has chamfered Tudor arched head. Aisleless nave has strutted queen post roof, partly ceiled. North side has Tudor arched doorway. Chancel has moulded and rebated arch with hood mould and stops, and round imposts on corbels. Crested wrought iron War Memorial screen, 1919. North side has chamfered organ opening and to its right, chamfered aumbry with hood mould. East end has elaborate C14 style War Memorial reredos, c.1945. Principal rafter roof with arch braces. Fittings include small ashlar front with octagonal bowl on traceried stem. Conical wooden cover, 1924. Traceried octagonal wooden pulpit. Timber eagle lectern, 1955. C19 traceried stalls, benches and desks. Monuments include brass with Latin inscription, 1874. Moulded marble and alabaster tablet, 1917.

Listing NGR: SK4611049191

This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.

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Legacy System number:: 429394
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/19554
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/26853

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.