Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ST JAMES ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297399
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ST JAMES ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1297399
- Date first listed:
- 11-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, ST JAMES ROAD
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, ST JAMES ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 39351 54941
Details
CARLISLE
NY3954 ST JAMES ROAD 671-1/15/254 (South side) Church of St James
II
Church of England church. 1865-7 Anderson & Pepper of Bradford. Quarry-faced red sandstone on chamfered plinth (from Cove Quarry) with flush yellow sandstone ashlar quoins (from Howrigg), dressings, chamfer and bands of calciferous sandstone; stepped buttresses and eaves cornice. Graduated slate roofs with coped gables and cross finials. 5-bay nave with 3-storey SW tower, NW porch, aisles and transepts; single-bay chancel with apsidal end. Tower has double west doors with scrolled wrought-iron hinge brackets under moulded pointed arch with shafts. Clasping butresses, lancet windows on 3 levels, those in belfry are paired and with louvres; broach spire with lucarnes. Gabled porch has double doors in dog-tooth surround and quatrefoil over. West geometric tracery window of 5 lights, under quatrefoil. Aisles have 2-light windows of trefoil heads with quatrefoil. Paired trefoil-headed lancets in clerestory. North transept/vestry has pointed doorway up steps; trefoil-headed lancet and quatrefoil window above south transept is similar. Chancel has 3 trefoil-headed lancets in apse. INTERIOR: richly labelled arches terminating in carved bosses of foliage etc, on red circular columns with carved and moulded caps. Open timber roof, the principals springing from ornamental columns with carved caps and bosses. Floor laid with black and red Staffordshire tiles. Late C19 open timber benches. Chancel arch springs from two columns on moulded brackets and caps. Chancel has rib-vaulted ceiling rising from small caps and bosses. Apse windows given by Thomas Nelson are by John Scott & Son of Carlisle, see Carlisle Journal (1867) and (1868). For further details see St James' Church, centenary pamphlet, 1967. (Carlisle Journal: 26 July 1867; Carlisle Journal: 3 July 1896).
Listing NGR: NY3935154941
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 386851
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
St James Church Carlisle Centenary Pamphlet, (1896)
Carlisle Journal in 26 July, (1867)
Carlisle Journal in 3 July, (1896)
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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