CHURCH OF ST JAMES

CHURCH OF ST JAMES, PEPPER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330249
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, PEPPER STREET

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Date:: 1999-08-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1330249
Date first listed:: 01-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES, PEPPER STREET

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, PEPPER STREET

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District:: Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Christleton
National Grid Reference:: SJ 44077 65722

Details

SJ 46 NW CHRISTLETON C.P. PEPPER STREET (North Side)

3/25 Church of St.James

1/6/1967

GV II*

Church: late C15 tower, the rest 1874-77 by W.Butterfield. Ashlar red sandstone. Green slate roof. Nave and chancel in one range, north and south aisles, south porch, side chapels to chancel and a 2-stage west tower. Aisles have rectangular windows of 2 or 3 cusped lights. Similar 2-light windows in the clerestorey. Gabled porch with arched entrance on engaged columns. Tall gabled and buttressed side chapel has a 3-light window with cusped tracery. Similar tall 2-light window in the chancel and a 3-light east window. Tower has diagonal buttresses and a stair turret at the south-east angle. 3-light west window and a 2-light louvred bell opening. Gargoyle rainspouts below an embattled parapet. The shingled pyramidal cap is Butterfield's addition. Interior: decorated with red and white sandstone. 5-bay nave arcades of double chamfered arches on octagonal piers. The clerestorey windows are over the piers and all the windows have wooden lintels. A wagon roof is sprung from stone corbels. Tall narrow triple-chamfered tower arch where plaster mimics the white stone. Wrought iron chancel screen beneath a hanging wooden screen. The panels of coloured stonework continue into the chancel and have a chequerboard pattern added in the upper portion. 2 bay arcades to the side chapels with the sanctuary beyond. This has a large alabaster reredos with cusped and quatrefoil panels filled with mosaic. Above, the roof contains painted quatrefoil panels. West window of 1877 by Gibbs and much of the other glass by Kempe 1884-1904. Large painted panels of the royal arms dated 1665, by Randle Holme III (Pevsner and Hubbard). fThe red sandstone came from Waverton quarry and the white from Stourton Hill.

Listing NGR: SJ4407765722

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Legacy System number:: 55471
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.