Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263817
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263817
- Date first listed:
- 04-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Upton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 99588 28905
Details
SS92NE UPTON CP UPTON VILLAGE
10/111 Church of St James -
- II
Parish church. Circa 1870. Squared and irregularly coursed local stone, Bath stone dressings, slate roof, decorative ridge tiles, corrugated iron roof to vestry. Three bay nave, south porch, north-east vestry, chancel. Diagonally buttressed west end, two 2-light windows, small rose window above, three 2-light windows on north face of nave, lean-to roofed vestry, shouldered doorway, 2-light window on east front, octagonal chimney with gabled top, lancet to diagonally buttressed chancel, 3-light east window, two lancets and two 2-light windows on south front, single storey gabled wooden porch with decorative bargeboards on stone plinth, double doors with decorative hinges, lancet to right; bell-cote over chancel arch, decorative wrought iron finial, bell in trefoil headed, gabled opening, Interior: rendered. Perpendicular-style chancel arch with colonnettes. Two bay archbraced chancel with faces carved on corbels; 6-bay nave roof, foliage corbels. C19 fittings including pulpit, font, tiles in chancel; wrought iron altar rails; wrought iron frame for portiere; harmonium. Three bells, unhung, and remains of possibly Saxon circular stone font from the earlier Church of St James (qv). The earlier Church of St James was largely demolished c1870 and the present church resited about a mile to the south on the main road through Upton village. There are tablets to the Fergusson Davie family who were presumably instrumental in the rebuilding of the church. The east window is dated 1873.
Listing NGR: SS9958828905
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 429590
- 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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