CHURCH OF ST JAMES

CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH END ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1308415
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH END ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1308415
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH END 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, CHURCH END ROAD

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: Boston (District Authority)
Parish:: Freiston
National Grid Reference:: TF 37729 43770

Details

TF 34 SE FREISTON CHURCH END ROAD (east side)

12/79 Church of St. James 26.1.67 G.V. I

Former Benedictine Priory, now Parish Church. Founded from Croyland in 1114, late C12, C13, C14, C15, C16, restoration in 1871 by James Fowler in Norman style. Limestone ashiar, coursed limestone rubble, red brick. Western tower, clerestoried nave, aisles, north porch. Ashlar C15 tower with stepped corner buttresses, bell moulded plinth, battlemented parapet. 3 light belfry openings having hollow chamfered surround. West door continuously moulded above a large 5 light window transomed with panel tracery. Above a canopied niche with statue. On the north side a blank niche. C16 brick north aisle, with moulded ashlar coping and dressings. Stepped buttresses between the 6 three light windows to the north side, and single similar windows to the west end. Alternating panel tracied C15 windows with C16 untransomed windows, and small triangular headed doorway. Gabled north porch in coursed rubble, ashlar and brick, with reset C13 outer doorway having annular reveals and capitals. C14 inner doorway with ogee head, set in taller C12 surround. Retains C14 door with panel traceried woodwork. Tail late C14 clerestory of 8 three light windows, cusped, reticulated tracery. Above a C12 looped corbel table obviously reset, with interposed gargoyles and brick parapet. In the east wall, the clustered shafts of the C12 crossing are visible with scalloped capitals, C19 east window of 5 lights, panel tracery. The south clerestory matches the north. The south aisle is an 1871 rebuilding in ashiar with a pointed window to the east end, a round headed doorway and 5 round headed windows and 3 lancets on the south side. The west window is of 2 lights with curvilinear tracery. Interior. Undivided nave and chancel of 6 Norman bays to the east and 3 early C13 bays to the west. Massive round piers, cruciform scalloped capitals, arches have stops and rolls, with variations. The easternmost arch on the south side has later zigzag. On the hood moulds arebeast head stops. The western arches also have circular pillars, triple responds with stiff leaf, and triple chamfered pointed heads. Tall C15 tower arch, double chamfered with octagonal capitals. Late C12 west crossing arch having roll mouldings and zigzag which is continued on the hood. C15 nave roof with moulded principals supported on carved corbels, retaining demi figures and original bosses. North aisle roof of similar date and pattern. South aisle has C19 roof. The third pier from the east on the north side was remade square to afford access to rood loft. C15 aisle screens, having boldly cusped panel traceried bays. On the north side of the chancel a pillar piscina with scalloped base, circular shaft and octagonal capital. In the south aisle a reset C13 triple shaft base, now a shelf. In the vestry reset C15 panels to wall. At the east end of the south aisle are C12 shafts to the vanished transept. Fittings. Chest dated 1590, iron bound with 3 locks. Fine C15 octagonal font on 3 steps with 2 kneeling stones and splayed base, blank trefoil panels to the sides and stem, with quatrefoils over. Splendid contemporary pierced and pinnacled wooden cover having radiating traceried windows, supporting central lantern over an open vault. Much crocketing.

Listing NGR: TF3773043773

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Legacy System number:: 191995
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.