Church of St James the Great
CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, SALOP STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270305
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James the Great
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, SALOP STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270305
- Date first listed:
- 11-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James the Great
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, SALOP STREET
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 GREAT, SALOP STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dudley (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 93679 90588
Details
SO 99 SW DUDLEY SALOP STREET
(north east side), Eve Hill
5/10016 Church of St James the Great
GV II
Anglican church. 1838-40; restored and extended 1869. Small coursed stone with freestone dressings. Slate roofs. PLAN: Nave, north and south aisles with galleries and clerestories and west tower; in 1869 restored and rebuilding of clerestory and chancel, organ chamber and vestry added. Gothic lancet style Commissioners' church. EXTERIOR: Tall aisles with plain lancets with buttresses between and small clerestory with little quatrefoil windows. Smaller lancets to chancel and vestry and tripartite lancet east window. West tower with short second stage, set-back buttresses, tall2-light lancet bell-openings and low pyramidal roof with iron weather-vane; moulded ashlar parapet to tower and west ends of aisles; east gables have coping and crosses. The ground at the east end falls away, revealing a tall dressed stone plinth. INTERIOR: Plastered walls. 7-bay north and south arcades with thin columns with rings, ornate foliage capitals and 2-centred arches. 1869 arch-braced roof on corbels between small clerestory windows. Galleries over the aisles and west end of nave with cusped panel fronts and box-pews. Chancel arch on corbel colonnettes and chancel roof similar to that of nave. Aisle roofs have ties and cusped struts. Furnishings largely complete, including:- benches, ornate wrought-iron chancel screen, Caen stone Gothic pulpit on clustered shafts of alabaster, font and painted triptych retable, now in west gallery. Stained glass east window of circa 1840. SOURCES: Buildings of England, page 121. Melville's and Co. Directory of Dudley 1852, page 9.
Listing NGR: SO9367990588
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459716
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Melvilles, , Company, , Directory of Dudley, (1852), 9
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 121
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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