Church of St James the Great
CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1382171
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James the Great
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1382171
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James the Great
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, CHURCH ROAD
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 GREAT, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Snitterfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 21844 60095
Details
SNITTERFIELD
SP26SW CHURCH ROAD
1457-1/6/101 (South East side)
05/04/67 Church of St James the Great
GV I
Church. c1300 chancel; early C14 nave and aisles with C15
clerestory; late C14-C15 west tower with C18 and c1860
restorations. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; old
tile roofs with coped gables. Chancel with north vestry, 4-bay
nave with aisles and tower.
EXTERIOR: chancel has moulded plinth, string course and top
cornice; angle buttresses. Renewed 5-light east window and
3-light renewed north and south windows, all with intersecting
tracery in moulded arches; Priest's doorway to south has plank
door and moulded arch.
Nave has clerestory with parapet and 2-light windows; aisles
have windows with Y-tracery. 3-stage tower has west entrance
with moulded arch to plank door; paired 2-light transomed
bell-openings; plat band and crenellated parapet with finials.
Some C18 and C19 exterior memorial tablets.
INTERIOR: chancel has C18 roof and renewed double piscina.
Nave has 4-bay arcades, that to north with octagonal piers and
stilted arches, that to south has shafted piers with unusual
capitals: shafts dying into bell forms; early C16 roof,
possibly taken from Fulbrook Castle; tall triple-chamfered
tower arch.
FITTINGS: 2 stall fronts and 2 stall ends c1530 with good
carving, Perpendicular details influenced by Renaissance
forms; c1630 communion rail; C19 tiles; c1730 pulpit; good
early C14 font with heads coming from underside.
MONUMENTS: C18 and C19 wall memorials; 2 C18 hatchments to
members of the family of the Earls of Coventry.
STAINED GLASS: window by F Holt of Warwick, 1877; chancel has
window to Smith family by Frampton.
A good church with some unusual features and fittings.
(Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the
County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 167-72; Shell Guides: Hickman
D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 154-5).
Listing NGR: SP2184260095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482537
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire, (1945), 167-172
Hickman, D, Shell Guides in Warwickshire, (1979), 154-155
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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