CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE APOSTLE

CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE APOSTLE, LACKON BANK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1315284
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE APOSTLE
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE APOSTLE, LACKON BANK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1315284
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE APOSTLE
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE APOSTLE, LACKON BANK

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 THE APOSTLE, LACKON BANK

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

District:: North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Birstwith
National Grid Reference:: SE 23893 59474

Details

BIRSTWITH LACKON BANK SE 25 NW (east side)

14/25 Church of St James the Apostle 23.1.87

- II

Church. 1856-57, for John Frederick Greenwood. Coursed squared gritstone, grey slate roofs. West tower of 3 stages with tall spire. Nave of 4 bays with north and south aisles, north porch and 2-bay chancel. In late C13 - early C14 Gothic style. Hoodmoulds with head-stops to doors and geometrical tracery to windows with hoodmoulds, of 2 lights to nave and chancel; 3-light east window. Tower: diagonal buttresses, tall belfry window as nave, broach spire with lucarnes. Interior: pews possibly date from addition of vestry and organ chamber in 1887. Notable chancel arch with relief carving of grapes and wheat below springer level. Reredos with figures in mosaic and marble, pre-Raphaelite in style.

Listing NGR: SE2389359474

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.