CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263773
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jun-1988
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HAMBRIDGE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HAMBRIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Somerset
- District:
- South Somerset (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hambridge and Westport
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 39260 20964
Details
ST32SE CURRY RIVEL CP
HAMBRIDGE
4/100 Church of St James-The-Less
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GV II
Anglican church. Foundation stone laid 20.6.1842, architect Benjamin Ferrey, Coursed and squared hammer-dressed lias,
Ham stone dressings, slate roof to coped verges, cruciform finial. Nave, chancel, north organ chamber, south vestry,
slender west tower. Decorated style. Buttressed 5 bay nave, 2-light windows with cusped tracery to heads in 2 styles,
labels with very well modelled heads as stops. Small gabled south porch with coping and finial, simple chamfered inner
and outer doorways of 2 orders, ribbed inner door. Embattled tower of 2 stages with diagonal buttressed to west,
pinnacles, gargoyles, 2-light bell-chamber windows, 2-light west window, conforming style to nave; narrow west doorway.
Lean-to vestry and organ chamber, similar style to nave, Short single bay chancel, lancets to the north and south,
3-Light east window, good retriculated tracery, Mid C19 stained east window of unusual colouring and style. Interior
with many good fixtures, and furniture usual for such a modest church. Virtually unaltered since the end of the C19
inside and well illustrating the interior design of a Victorian country church.
Listing NGR: ST3926020964
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431288
- 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
