Church of St James
Church of St James, Leckhampstead
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313057
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St James, Leckhampstead
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313057
- Date first listed:
- 06-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St James, Leckhampstead
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, Leckhampstead
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- West Berkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Leckhampstead
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 43936 75958
Details
SU 47 NW
7/43
LECKHAMPSTEAD
LECKHAMPSTEAD VILLAGE
Church of St James
6.4.67
II*
Church. Circa 1858-60 S.S. Teulon. Knapped flint with brick dressings and bands, Bath stone cills, tracery and some stone quoins; tiled roofs. Nave, south aisle, south porch, chancel, rudimentary tower and transepts at crossing, north vestry.
South elevation: bellcote on gable to left, gabled porch with open sides over door in two-centred arch with drip mould and carved heads at springers to left; aisle with three two-light windows in plain two-centred arches to centre; transept in form of gabled dormer with window in two centred arch with drip mould, surmounted by short open sided tower with pyramidal roof and weathercock; chancel with one three-sided window in two-centred arch to right.
Interior: polychromatic brickwork with banding and diapering. Nave: of three and a half bays with one bay forming crossing, tall arch braced roof; four-bay arcade to south aisle of two-centred arches on square piers with moulded stone caps; low stone capped wall defines crossing; Chancel: two-centred chamfered chancel arch, one bay chancel.
Fittings: three-light east window of the Ascension by Lavers and Barrard; re-set carved C17 timber pulpit; re-set C11 stone font shaped like a cup with vine carvings around the top and rope and leaf carvings on the base.
Listing NGR: SU4393675958
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 39959
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 166
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 67
Murrays Architectural Guide in Berkshire, (1949), 90 132
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 5 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
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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