CHURCH OF ST JAMES

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1260729
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SAINT JAMES STREET

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SAINT JAMES STREET

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

District:
Rochdale (Metropolitan Authority)
National Grid Reference:
SD 92876 12852

Details

SD 91 SW MILNROW SAINT JAMES STREET (north-east side)

3/108 Church of 24/1/67 St. James

G.V. II Church. 1868-9. By G. E. Street for the Schofield family. Rock-faced stone with slate roof. Nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch, west tower and chancel flanked by organ chamber and side chapel. Gothic revival. 5-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth and weathered buttresses. Gabled porch in bay 1. Other bays have 2-light aisle windows with curvilinear tracery and triple clerestory lights with cusped heads. Coped gables with finials. 4-light west window and 5-light east window. The side chapel and organ chamber/vestry have ogee-arched doorways. 2-stage tower with diagonal buttresses and octagonal stair turret has 2-light belfry openings, a ballflower-enriched band below a parapet with blind cusping, gargoyles, a pyramidal roof, and pinnacles which have been taken down (1984). Interior: Double-chamfered nave arcade on octagonal columns having naturalistic foliage capitals, sculptor - T. Earp. Double- chamfered chancel and tower arches. Nave has king-post roof trusses whereas chancel has arch-braced collar-tie roof trusses. Sedilia and piscina. Stone font and pulpit. Stained glass. Timber fittings.

Listing NGR: SD9287612852

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
439616
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.

End of official listing

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Date: 17 Aug 1999
Reference: IOE01/01762/23
Rights: Copyright IoE Mr Harry Dobbs. Source Historic England Archive
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