CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS

CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HAMBRIDGE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263773
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HAMBRIDGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1263773
Date first listed:: 23-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE LESS, HAMBRIDGE

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 LESS, HAMBRIDGE

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary 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

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Legacy System:: LBS

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