Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1373493
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1373493
- Date first listed:
- 04-Oct-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- North Norfolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southrepps
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 25679 36794
Details
TG 2536 SOUTHREPPS CHURCH STREET
11/44 Church of St. James 4:10:60
G.V. I
Parish church. Medieval. Flint with stone dressings. Graded slate roof. West tower, nave, chancel, south porch. Embattled tower of 4 stages with setback buttresses (its 'emendation' mentioned in wills from 1431-1467) Flushwork to buttresses with embattled tracery. Flushwork basecourse with wavy frieze above with shells and blank shields. West doorway with paired shafts having polygonal abaci and bases with a continuous inner order and continuous order between the shafts; arch with rolls with hollows between; encircled cusped quatrefoils with shields in the spandrels. Doorway flanked by niches with shafts supporting a rib-vaulted canopy; wavy frieze over with shells and shields. Tall 6-light west window with panel tracery; alternate stone and flint voussoirs; hood mould continuing to form string course. Stair turret to north-west corner with cross and slit lights. Square ringing chamber openings with rows of panel tracery forming a reticulated grid. 3-light transomed bell-openings with panel tracery. Buttressed nave of 4 bays was previously aisled (aisles demolished 1791); line of aisle roofs visible on east face of tower. Walls now C19 with 3 C19 Decorated 3-light windows to south. To the north central C19 chimney, Y-tracery window; some C19 brick to buttresses. Rood stair at angle of nave and chancel supported on a 2-centred chamfered arch with brick above. Buttressed chancel of 3 bays with angle buttresses to the eastern corners. To the south 3 3-light restored windows with cusped reticulated tracery that to the centre bay with higher sill to accommodate priest's door; sill band with figures to centre bay; doorway with 2 continuous hollow chamfers with a roll between; hood mould with figures stops. 6 light C19 Decorated east window. South porch possibly moved after demolition of aisles incorporates Medieval archway, restored, with shafts with polygonal abaci and a continuous outer order. Blocked lights in east and north walls. C19 nave doorway. Interior. Tall tower arch with pair shafts with polygonal bases and abaci, with a continuous roll moulding between the shafts and an outer continuous roll moulding. Tower buttresses visible inside. C14 nave arcades of 4 bays still in place; octagonal piers, bases and abaci; 2 hollow chamfered orders to arch; hood moulds with figure stops. C19 roof. Polygonal shafts and abaci to chancel arch. Rere-arches of chancel windows have thin shafts with foliated capitals; hood moulds with figure stops. The east rere-arch is restored with foliated stops. l½ ogee arches of piscina and sedilia, cut by window. Sill band with figures over priest's door. Rere-arch has 5 orders of roll and fillet moulding with deeply cut hollows, hood with figure stops. North door C19. C14 glass in small south windows. Good C19 roof with arched wind-braces and crown posts on C19 foliated corbels. Remains off rood stair. Medieval screen- with restored upper parts. Reset marble monument in north nave wall to Jane Barton d.1726 and William Barton d.1740 with Corinthian pilasters, an arched head with cherubs; foliated apron with cherub's head. Painted arms of George III. Restored octagonal font with quatrefoils to bowl.
Listing NGR: TG2567936794
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 224706
- 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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