Church of St James
Church of St James, Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313467
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- Church of St James, Church Street
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1313467
- Date first listed:
- 08-Feb-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of St James, Church Street
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, 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
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 16 August 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE4048
5/7
WETHERBY
CHURCH STREET (north end) LS22
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 four-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 second stage with west and south clocks in deeply-chamfered recesses with hoodmoulds; louvred three-light belfry openings with shafts, moulded arches and linked hoodmoulds; corbelled cornice below parapet with blind quatrefoils and eight pinnacle bases (pinnacles removed 1939).
Nave chamfered plinth; buttresses with gablets at angles and between bays. Flat-roofed porch to bay two has hooded arch and spandrel quatrefoils; circular window over has cusped radial tracery. Stepped three-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 two-light window with hoodmould. Hollow-edged angle buttresses with gablets flank east window of five 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.
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