Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370262
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1370262
- Date first listed:
- 18-Jun-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH LANE
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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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Broomhaugh and Riding
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 01848 61315
Details
BROOMHAUGH AND RIDING CHURCH LANE (Broomhaugh) NZ 0161 (North side) 22/70 Church of St. James
GV II
Parish church, 1858 by Matthew Thompson; eastern parts 1879 (except for north vestries of 1962). Snecked stone, eastern parts tooled squared stone; ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Aisleless 4-bay nave, with narrower west tower with porch to south. Taller crossing and south transept with porch on east; polygonal sanctuary with small flanking chambers. Free C13 style, more enriched in later parts. Nave with stepped buttress bay divisions and trefoiled lancets. Tower becoming octagonal above low angle buttresses; west window and belfry openings, the latter under steep gablets, are trefoiled lancets with cusped spheric triangles in heads; octagonal stone spire. Gabled porch with diagonal buttresses; boarded doors with ornamental ironwork under double-chamfered arch with head stops to hoodmould, 2 spheric triangle lights in west wall. Eastern parts have stepped buttresses and trefoiled lancets, taller in transept. Foliate hood stops and transept gable cross. Sanctuary has ridge of pierced cinquefoils and wrought-iron finial cross; south-east porch has similar doors to main porch, under trefoiled arch, and 2-light C14 style window on east. Interior. Plain chamfered tower arch, tall hollow-chamfered arch to crossing. Moulded sanctuary arch with foliate caps and head stops, flanked by smaller segmental-pointed arches to side chambers. Sanctuary has segmental-pointed arches to side chambers and trefoil-headed niches further east. Crossing/ transept has lofty roof with arch-braced trusses carried on moulded wall shafts. Ornate stone and marble pulpit. Early C20 glass (Northumbrian saints) in nave windows.
Listing NGR: NZ0184861315
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 240437
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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