CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313467
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetherby
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 40395 48376
Details
SE4048 WETHERBY CHURCH STREET
LS22 (north end)
5/7 Church of St. James
II
Church. 1839-42, chancel extended 1877. By J. B. and W. Atkinson. Dressed
sandstone, Welsh slate roof. West tower, wide 4-bay nave with south porch;
taller, narrower single-bay chancel with south vestry and north organ
chamber. Gothic Revival style with lancet windows. Tower: offset plinth,
hollow-edged angle buttresses with gablets rising as pilasters with shafted
arrises; double-chamfered south door with hoodmould; tall 2nd stage with west
and south clocks in deeply-chamfered recesses with hoodmoulds; louvred 3-
light belfry openings with shafts, moulded arches and linked hoodmoulds;
corbelled cornice below parapet with blind quatrefoils and 8 pinnacle bases
(pinnacles removed 1939). Navel chamfered plinth; buttresses with gablets at
angles and between bays. Flat-roofed porch to bay 2 has hooded arch and
spandrel quatrefoils; circular window over has cusped radial tracery.
Stepped 3-light windows to other bays beneath continuous round-arched
hoodmoulds with carved stops; corbel table to coped ashlar parapet; gable
copings. Chancel: lean-to south vestry with shouldered-headed door on right
of 2-light window with hoodmould. Hollow-edged angle buttresses with gablets
flank east window of 5 stepped lights divided by shafts; coped gable has
cinquefoiled opening and apex cross.
Interior treble-chamfered tower arch with hoodmould returning at floral
stops to cover nave windows. Tall, moulded chancel arch; pointed arch into
organ chamber. Queen-post trusses to the nave; painted panelled ceiling in
the chancel. Stained glass: east window of 1877, west window of 1889. Royal
Coat of Arms dated 1776 on nave north wall. Bronze memorial to dead of 1914-
18 on south wall.
R. Unwin, Wetherby, 1986 pp 104-106 (illustration of church in original
form).
Listing NGR: SE4039548376
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 341925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Unwin, R, Wetherby, (1986), 104-106
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
