CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT

CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, BIRMINGHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296885
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, BIRMINGHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1296885
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, BIRMINGHAM ROAD

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, BIRMINGHAM ROAD

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wyre Forest (District Authority)
Parish:: Churchill and Blakedown
National Grid Reference:: SO 88076 78474

Details

CHURCHILL & BLAKEDOWN CP BIRMINGHAM ROAD (south side) SO 87 NE Blakedown 7/73 Church of St James the Great - II Parish church. 1866, by G E Street, extended 1905. Sandstone rubble with machine tile roof. Nave, chancel and north aisle of 1905. Nave: three bays with two cinquefoiled light window to left, a trefoiled lancet, gabled porch to right. West window of three cinquefoiled lights under 2-centred head below timber bellcote with shingled pyramidal roof. Chancel: one trefoiled lancet; east window of three cinquefoiled lights. Aisle: two windows of two pointed lights, to left end a window of two cinquefoiled lights under square head. Interior: three-bay arcade to aisle has two Tudor arches and a smaller 2- centred arch to west. Bellcote supported by large arch-braced collar truss. Fittings: almost all are early C20. (BoE, p 93).

Listing NGR: SO8807678474

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Legacy System number:: 157060
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 93

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