Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1341134
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1954
- 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:
- 1341134
- Date first listed:
- 06-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ashley
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 93172 94712
Details
ASHLEY ASHLEY VILLAGE ST 99 SW 8/5 Church of St. James 6.9.54 GV II*
Small Anglican church. Norman foundation, with south aisle rebuilt c1200, and altered including rebuilding of chancel in 1848. Coursed rubble stone with ashlar east end, stone slate roof with coped verges and saddlestones with cross finials. West tower, nave with narrow south aisle and south porch adjoining south transeptal gable, lower projecting chancel. Tower of 2 stages with string courses, upper embattled stage of C15 with gargoyles and mullioned belfry lights to north and west faces. Mostly 2-light plate tracery windows, replaced to north and east in C19. South porch has Norman doorway with dogtooth and horseshoe diapering to lintel and tympanum, roll moulded arch, and scalloped capitals to side shafts cut short at side stone seats. Three-bay Early English arcade on south side with clustered shafts with foliated capitals. Plain plastered nave vault, with 4 shallow bays of arch-braced principals to chancel, on long decorative corbels. Several fine stone wall tablets in south aisle, mostly of C18. East window has rere-arch with marble side colonnettes. (David Verey, Buildings of England: Gloucestershire - the Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: ST9317294712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 130319
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
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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