Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, LOW LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261243
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, LOW LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261243
- Date first listed:
- 19-Oct-1962
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, LOW LANE
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, LOW LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsforth
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 24738 38324
Details
HORSFORTH LOW LANE SE 23 NW LS 18 (west side, off) 8/138 Church of St. James 19.10.1962 - II
Church. 1847-8, by C. W. Burleigh of Leeds. Coursed sandstone, slate roof. Nave with north and south aisles under parallel roofs, chancel. Early English style. Buttressed 5-bay aisles have 2-centred arched windows all of 2 cusped lights with trefoils or quatrefoils in the heads and all under hoodmoulds with figured stops; north aisle has gabled single-storey porch to 2nd bay, with deeply-moulded 2-centred-arched doorway under a hoodmould with blank-shield stops; south aisle has a triangular porch incorporated with buttress between 4th and 5th bays of south aisle. West gable wall has a low 2-centred-arched west doorway moulded in 2 orders under a hoodmould with figured stops, a stepped drip-mould, and a large west window of 4 cusped lights) under a hoodmould with figured stops; and a gable bellcote; west ends of aisles have 3-light windows with multifoil tracery. Apex crosses on all gables. Two-bay chancel in similar style, with 3-light traceried east window.
Interior: 5-bay aisle arcades of octagonal columns, double-chamfered arches.
Listing NGR: SE2473838324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438081
- 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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