PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES

PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SCHOOL LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1321642
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1961
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SCHOOL LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1321642
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1961
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SCHOOL LANE

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:: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, SCHOOL LANE

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

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Husborne Crawley
National Grid Reference:: SP 95565 36227

Details

HUSBORNE CRAWLEY SCHOOL LANE SP 9536 10/31 Parish Church of 23.1.61 St James GV II*

Parish Church. C13, C14 and C15, substantially reworked 1911 (Kelly's Directory (Beds), 1914, p114). Coursed rubble, a mixture of greensand and ironstone. Ashlar dressings. Clay tile roofs. Chancel N vestry and organ chamber, nave, N and S aisles, S porch, W tower. Chancel: C14 origins, rebuilt 1911. 3-light pointed-arched E window. 2 2-light pointed arched windows flanking small doorway to S elevation. N vestry and organ chamber: also 1911, have square-headed mullioned windows and pointed-arched N door. Nave: C13, reworked C15, roof rebuilt 1911. C13 3-bay S arcade, C15 3-bay N arcade, all with pointed arches, N ones taller. C15 pointed lower arch. Chancel arch is 1911. Blocked doorways of rood loft staircase to SE angle. N. aisle: C15, reworked 1911, 2 3-light N windows with segmental heads flank a pointed-arched doorway. S aisle: C13 and C14, reworked 1911. 2 3-light windows similar to N aisle, flanking C14 pointed-arched doorway. C14 holy water stoup to E of door on external wall. S porch: 1911, gabled with pointed archway and square-headed 2-light windows. Porch, chancel and nave have stone coping to gables. Aisles and vestry have plain parapets. W tower: C15. 3 stages, with diagonal buttresses to W, octagonal stair turret to SE, and embattled parapet. Pointed-arched door in square surround surmounted by 3-light pointed-arched window. Bell-stage has paired 2-light pointed-arched windows to all sides. Interior: all roofs 1911. Plain medieval cylindrical font to nave. S aisle E wall has C14 niche with foliate spandrels. N aisle has chest tomb to John Thompson d.1597 and wife Dorothea, of alabaster and marble. Pair of effigies under studded canopy supported by 5 columns, with carved cartouches to base and canopy crest. S aisle has polychrome marble wall monuments to Robert Slingsby d.1634, Edmund Williamson d.1737 and Talbot Williamson d.1765, latter with urn and obelisk.

Listing NGR: SP9556536227

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 38328
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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'Kelly's Directory' in Bedfordshire, (1914), 114

Legal

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