Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323510
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1323510
- Date first listed:
- 04-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holt
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 03001 03925
Details
HOLT SU 00 SW HOLT VILLAGE
9/61 Church of St James
II
Parish Church, 1836, repairs and alterations 1875 and chancel 1889. 1875 work by J Tulloch, 1875 work by T H Wyatt. Flemish bond brickwork with some flared headers and some ashlar dressings. Slate roof with stone gable copings and west ashlar bell-cote. Plan: nave; chancel; transeptal vestry and organ chamber. Nave: brick lancets separated by weathered buttresses; west, pointed, moulded doorway with returned label and plank door; pointed window in moulded, trefoiled recess with label above. Chancel and transepts; transept windows of 3-lights under straight heads with curvilinear tracery; 5-light east window under pointed head with curvilinear tracery, each light separated by an ashlar strip; flat buttresses; roughcast gables. Interior: pointed, moulded chancel arch dying into jambs with subsidiary pointed arches either side; pointed transept arches of 2 chamfered orders; tie beam nave roof; king and queen post roof to chancel; C19 glass; C19 monuments; C19 octagonal stone font on octagonal plinth; early C17 octagonal timber pulpit from Wimborne Minster Church with moulded arcade and entablature supported by freestanding Corinthian columns; other features C19. The chancel is of a curiously modernistic design for the period. (R.C.H.M. Dorset, Vol V, p.32, no. 1, Newman J and Pevsner, N. The Buildings of England. Dorset, 1972, 1972, p.232. Warren Col P J K 'The Story of Holt Church and Holt Forest, Wimborne, revised 1975).
Listing NGR: SU0300103925
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 107519
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1975), 32
Pevsner, N, Newman, J, The Buildings of England: Dorset, (1972), 232
Warren, P J K, The Story of Holt Church and Holt Forest Wimborne, (1975)
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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