CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT

CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1287785
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1287785
Date first listed:: 08-Dec-1955
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, MAIN STREET

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 GREAT, MAIN STREET

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: Cherwell (District Authority)
Parish:: Claydon with Clattercot
National Grid Reference:: SP 45703 50047

Details

CLAYDON WITH CLATTERCOTE MAIN STREET SP4550 (West side) Claydon 10/31 Church of St. James the Great 08/12/55

GV II*

Small church, C12 origins represented by C12 south doorway and north arcade of 3 bays, C12 chancel probably extended in C14 or C15, C14 west tower, C15 south porch. Restoration at 1860 by William White: north aisle almost entirely rebuilt, piscina and sedilia inserted in chancel and all windows renewed. Furnishings almost entirely 1860s. Squared coursed ironstone. Tower has a saddleback roof of stone slate on south, C20-tile on north, Nave and chancel and aisles have C20-tile roofs, Chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch, west tower, 4-window range. 2 entrances, Chancel has painted arched priest's 5 doorway with plank door and weathered head, Chancel has renewed 3-light window with intersecting tracery. Chancel and nave have 2- and 3-light lancet windows mostly restored or renewed by William White. Chancel has 2 buttresses and stone-coped gable. Gabled south porch has stone slate roof and pointed arched doorway with moulded jambs. Plank door and strap hinges. North aisle has smote and triple lancets. Remains of a C14 stone chimney stack. The vent may resemble one at Hanwell but the interior fireplace has gone. West tower. Low with a saddleback roof. 3 stages.Lancets and 2-light trefoil head lancets to bell-stage. Restored ironstone quoins. Interior. C19 Queen strut roofs. North arcade has 3 short round piers with capitals carved with flat upright leaves. North aisle has an Early English arch springing from a corbel with nailhead decoration leading from north aisle to a chapel. The chapel has 3 openings to the chancel, a squint, a C13 arch and a doorway once external as the mouldings are weathered. Fittings and furnishings of 1860 restoration by William White, including piscina, sedilia, pews, pulpit, reading desk and font. Stained glass; east window 1860s by Wailes of Newcastle. South chancel windows of 1860s by Lavers and Barraud. South chancel Windows of - by Lovers and Sarr aud. (Buildings of England: Oxford; 1974, p548; VCH; Oxfordshire; Vol X, p192)

Listing NGR: SP4570350047

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Legacy System number:: 401199
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 548
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1972), 192

Legal

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