Church of St James
CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383510
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1383510
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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 building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Greete
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 57720 70876
Details
GREETE
SO57SE Church of St James
582-1/4/103
12/11/54
GV II*
Church. C12 nave, C13 chancel, C15 and C18 alterations,
restored 1856.
MATERIALS: rubble stone and coursed rubble with ashlar
dressings, partly roughcast rendered. Banded plain and
club-pattern clay tile roofs with ashlar coped gables at each
end and pierced ornamental tile ridge.
PLAN: chancel, nave with bellcote and south porch.
EXTERIOR: chancel east window of 3 restored stepped lancets
under brick rebuilt gable. North wall rendered, with Early
English lancet. Blocked doorway with shallow pointed arch.
South wall rendered, with 3 single C13 cusped lancets with
hoodmould to left window, carved head reset above central
window.
Nave: rendered north wall on ashlar plinth. To left is one
twin oak mullion C15 window with carved cusped head within
ogee pattern border, to right one Early English lancet. South
wall rebuilt with restored oak window to right to match that
on north wall. Much renewed C12 central south door of 3 plain
orders of carving, plain tympanum and pillars and plain
cushion capitals. To left is restored twin cusped lancet and
single Early English lancet. West wall set on ashlar plinth
capped with roll-moulded course with projecting central flat
buttress with ashlar capping at upper 2 stages. Norman lancet
set in buttress. Later bellcote set on gable-end: twin
bell-openings with roundel over, and roof of coped ashlar with
corbelled and nailhead enriched eaves.
C19 gabled tiled south porch with arch-braced collar truss set
on a simple traceried arcade set on high ashlar plinth.
INTERIOR: chancel with 3-bay single-purlin roof with 2 king
post trusses. Piscina with projecting fluted bowl and sedilia
set in rere arch in south wall. C19 pointed chancel arch set
on simple shaft column.
Nave: restored arch-braced rafter roof with collar and
ashlaring.
Pulpit with C18 panelling. Memorial tablet with cornice and
pyramid over with inscribed quatrefoil, to Catherine wife of
John Hall d.1775. C14 font with plain octagonal bowl, base and
concave pedestal, and with C17 cover.
Listing NGR: SO5772070876
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483940
- 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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