Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES, DORSINGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1382595
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, DORSINGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1382595
- Date first listed:
- 05-Apr-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES, DORSINGTON 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, DORSINGTON 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:
- Long Marston
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 15275 48120
Details
LONG MARSTON
SP1548 DORSINGTON ROAD
1912-1/13/85 (South side)
05/04/67 Church of St James
GV I
Church. C14 nave and chancel, with C16 porch and restored C16
bell turret. Narrow coursed limestone rubble with ashlar
dressings; graduated stone slate roof; timber-framed porch and
bell turret.
PLAN: 2-bay chancel, 3-bay nave with south porch and west bell
turret.
EXTERIOR: coped stone gables. Chancel has offset diagonal and
angle buttresses flanking 3-light window with Perpendicular
tracery; coped gable with cross.
North side has 2 windows of 2 traceried lights flanking
round-headed priest's entrance with plain surround with
beading, enriched imposts and fielded-panel key block, plank
door; south side has similar windows.
Nave has alternately wide and narrow courses of stone.
North side has offset buttress to left of gabled porch. Porch
with close-studded framing on limestone plinth; entrance with
renewed spandrels to 3-centred head and renewed plank door
with strap hinges, 3-light windows to returns. 2
single-chamfered traceried nave windows of 2 lights.
South side has some patches of ashlar; 4 offset buttresses,
that to west on plinth, that to east is diagonal; small
2-light window to west and 2 larger 2-light windows with C14
tracery and hoods; scratch dial to east end.
West end has 2 tall offset buttresses and lower angle
buttresses; 2-light single-chamfered traceried window; bell
turret has close-studded framing and saddleback roof; 3-light
louvred bell openings and weather cock. Nave has short east
return to north with wall monument to Mary Tomes, d.1751: worn
slab with tapering pilasters, entablature with pulvinated
frieze and pediment.
INTERIOR: chancel has tie beam and collar roof with
arch-braced queen posts and wind braces; segmental-headed
piscina recess with remains of projecting bowl; rebated
chancel arch with continuous chamfer.
Nave has collar rafter roof with ashlaring; plastered
timber-framed partition wall to west end has exposed close
studding over 2 tall timber posts to centre, forming open
space below bell turret which has battened panelling to
returns with plank doors and high opening to south with turned
balusters.
FITTINGS: chancel has C19 altar rail and candelabra, plain
stalls; nave has early C17 pulpit with enriched round-headed
panels; plain C19 stalls with candelabra; circular font on
traceried base; ex-situ stone altar slab on 4 tapering
supports; porch has roof with wind braces and one arch-braced
collar truss, plain rebated inner door and stone benches.
MONUMENTS: chancel has 3 brass plates on north wall: Joan,
Dorothea and Elizabeth Cooper, d.1658, 1650 and 1657, floor
slab to Richard Day, d.1697, with scrolly frame and armorial
bearing; porch has floor slab to Elizabeth Goodin, d.1732.
Stained glass: chancel east window has medieval fragments,
small C19 roundels to other chancel windows.
An attractive church in good setting and an unusual
timber-framed bell turret.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 344; Buildings of England: N.Pevsner: Staffordshire:
London: 1974-: 125).
Listing NGR: SP1526948119
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482979
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 344
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 125
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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