CHURCH OF ST JAMES
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1350000
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jul-1959
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
Map
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Wychavon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harvington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 05719 48827
Details
SP 0448 - SP 0548; 10/70
HARVINGTON CP,
CHURCH STREET (east side)
Church of St James
30.07.59
GV
I
Parish church. C12, enlarged early C14 and restored 1855 by F Preedy.
West tower, chancel, nave and north porch. West tower: C12, of three
stages capped by copper clad broach spire of 1855. Belfry openings of
two semicircular-headed lights, the shaft between with capital, and label
above. Nave: C14 of three bays divided by buttresses, two windows of two
ogee trefoiled lights under 2-centred heads; C19 gabled central porch of
stone with 2-centred arch. Chancel: three bays divided by buttresses with
diagonal corner buttresses. Windows are lancets with ogee trefoil heads.
Priest's door in west bay. West window is C19 of three ogee trefoil lights
under a 2-centred head.
INTERIOR: nave: wide tower arch of two chamfered
orders to 2-centred head, traces of narrower C12 roof and wall lines on
tower wall. Chancel arch C14 of two chamfered orders with 2-centred head;
triangular headed piscina to south of it. Chancel has an ogee-trefoiled
piscina to south of altar. Roofs: nave of four bays, C19 arch-braced collar
trusses. Chancel roof, similar of three bays. Fittings: simple C12 font
of tub shape. Wall tablet on west wall of chancel to Thomas Feriman,
died 1619, framed by Doric columns.
(BoE, p 191; VCH, 3, pp 389-90;
Gordon Barnes, Frederick Preedy, Evesham, 1989, p.37).
Listing NGR: SP0571648827
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 148673
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 389-90
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 191
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
