Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1264291
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1264291
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH 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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Gedling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Papplewick
- National Grid Reference:
- SK5457051530
Details
SK 55 SW
1/126
13.10.66
PAPPLEWICK
CHURCH LANE
Church of St.James
G.V.
I
Parish church. C14, rebuilt 1795 for Frederick Montagu of
Papplewick Hall. Restored 1940. Coursed and squared rubble
with ashlar dressings. Gothick Revival style. Moulded plinth,
cornice, impost band, ramped crenellated parapet with crocketed
pinnacles. Most windows are C13 style double lancets with Y
tracery. West tower, nave and chancel under continuous roof,
organ chamber, south porch. West tower, 2 stages, has moulded
string course and eaves band with 4 gargoyles. Crenellated
pinnacled parapet. Canted stair turret to north-west, with 4
lights. First stage has to south, a chamfered casement. To
west, a lancet with hood mould. Second stage has 4 Decorated
double lancets with hood moulds and mask stops. Nave and chancel
has to north, a diagonal buttress, single corner stack, plain
eaves band, and to west, a leaded casement. South side has 5
lancets. East end has a lancet and pedimented coped gable with
cross. Blank quatrefoil in pediment. Organ chamber has a
mullioned casement to north. South porch has to south, pointed
doorway with crocketed ogee hood and tympanum inscribed "FM
1795". Above, ramped pedimented gable with blank quatrefoil. On
each side, a similar blank quatrefoil. Interior has stone
benches and plaster ceiling. Moulded doorway and above it, re-
set C13 carving and C14 finial. Nave and chancel has plaster
ceiling, 1985, and panelled dado, 1940. West end has 2 doors
with leaded quatrefoil overlights, flanking Arms of George III.
Above, chamfered and rebated tower arch, C14. North side has
panelled gallery on clustered wooden columns, returned across
west end. To north, double staircase with turned newels and
stick balusters. Gallery east end has Squire's pew. East end
has stained glass window by F. Eginton, 1795, incorporating C15
fragments. South side has central ogee headed recess flanked
above by single quatrefoils. South side windows have fragments
of C15 stained glass. Fittings include C12 font with broken
round bowl with blind arcading on stepped and chamfered base.
Font, 1795, with moulded marble bowl on reeded wooden stem.
Moulded square walnut pulpit, 1795, with ogee headed panels. C19
and C20 benches, stalls, desk, lectern and altar rail. Early C18
chip-carved chest. Memorials include 2 large marble wall tablets
with Arms, flanking pilasters, urns and obelisks, late C18, to
Lady Wearg and Charles Montagu. Sarcophagus-shaped wall tablet
with Arms and obelisk, late C18, to Lady Colladon. C18
hatchment. Gothick style tablet, 1845. 4 incised cross slabs,
C14. Ashlar and bronze War Memorial tablets, 1918 and 1945.
Listing NGR: SK5457051530
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 425389
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27033
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/38773
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 33 Nottinghamshire,
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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