Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ELVETHAM ROAD B15
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290372
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ELVETHAM ROAD B15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1290372
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ELVETHAM ROAD B15
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, ELVETHAM ROAD B15
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Birmingham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 06176 85474
Details
ELVETHAM ROAD 1. 5104 Edgbaston B15 Church of St James SP 0685 SW 46/13 21.1.70 II 2. 1852 by S S Teulon for the Calthorpe Estate. A cruciform aisless church designed to house a large congregation. Decorated style. Pink sandstone with buff dressings. Low nave walls with 2 light windows between buttresses. The very steeply pitched roof dominates the design and is clad with patterned tiles. Two timber dormers with geometrical tracery to each pitch and traingular louvred vents higher up; ornamental ridge tiles. The broad transepts have large north and south wheel windows. The lower chancel with slight geometrical east window, is flanked by vestries. Next to the south vestry gable in the angle with the transept rises a slim square tower broaching to octagonal belfry and surmounted by a squat spire with lucarnes. Projecting from nave a stone south porch approached by swept flight of steps. North and South doors have lively iron pattern work to hinges. Inside the vast nave roof runs straight through crossing to chancel, paried hammer beams alternating with scissor trusses. Corbelled arches to transepts and corbelled clustered shafts to chancel arch. There is a surprising internal buttress to the tower. A spacious evangelical plan, allowing the pulpit to dominate.
Listing NGR: SP0617685474
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 217046
- 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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