Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1288150
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1969
- 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:
- 1288150
- Date first listed:
- 14-Mar-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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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.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hartlebury
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 84074 70891
Details
HARTLEBURY CP HARTLEBURY SO 87 SW 1/65 Church of St James 14.3.69 GV II*
Parish church. Fragments of c1300, tower 1587 for Bishop Sandys, rest by Thomas Rickman 1825 and 1836-7 with restoration of 1877. Sandstone ashlar, tile roof. West tower 1587 with early C19 west porch; nave with north and south aisles 1836-7; chancel 1825, north and south chapels (early C19 and 1877 respectively). West tower: three stages with crenellated parapet, string courses and diagonal buttresses; belfry (top) stage has windows of two pointed lights under a 3-centred head; on west face of tower above porch a pedimented tablet bears the arms of Bishop Sandys and the date 1587; west porch: by Rickman, two storeys with angled buttresses; large 3-light Perpendicular style window over entrance with 2-centred head. Nave and aisles: of 1836-7 by Rickman, crenellated parapet, five bays divided by stepped buttresses, the fifth bay to the west wrapping around the tower; windows of three trefoil headed lights. North chapel of 1825: four bays with single cinquefoil headed light windows under square heads with square labels, the east bay occupied by a door below a blind window. South chapel: of 1877; two bays with windows of two trefoil headed lights, east window of three ligts. Chancel: east window of four lights under 2-centred head. Interior: nave: four-bay arcade, slender sandstone piers supporting 2-centred moulded arches, plastered ribbed vaults to nave and aisles with bosses. Galleries in both aisles on cast iron columns with cinquefoil headed panels to front of gallery; 2-centred moulded arch to chancel with label, and similar, but lower arches from aisles into chapels, two-bay arcade each side of chancel, that to north with quatrefoil columns supporting 2-centred arches of two chamfered orders of c1300 but much restored, the south arcade is a copy of this of about 1877. Ceiling: ribbed barrel vault. Fittings: almost entirely late C19, font: circular with nail head ornament, the lower part C12, the upper late C19. (VCH 3, p 386; BoE pp 189 - 190; H Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 - 1840, London 1978, p 691).
Listing NGR: SO8407470891
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 400574
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 386
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 691
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 386
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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