CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT

CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, HOLLINCROSS LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384276
Date first listed:: 22-May-2000
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, HOLLINCROSS LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1384276
Date first listed:: 22-May-2000
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, HOLLINCROSS LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT, HOLLINCROSS LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Derbyshire
District:: High Peak (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SK 03229 93549

Details

GLOSSOP

SK0393NW HOLLINCROSS LANE, Whitfield 921-1/14/108 (South side) Church of St James the Great

GV II

Parish church. 1844-46 by EH Shellard, chancel enlarged 1897 by Naylor and Sale, vestry added c1900. Coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, coped gables with kneelers and cross finials plus 4 octagonal nave pinnacles. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: nave of 5 bays with north and south aisles, north-west tower with spire, south-west porch and chapel, south-east and south-west chapels and vestry. EXTERIOR: tower of 4 stages, with angle buttresses with set-offs. Blind first stage, single lancets to second and third stages and pairs of lancet bell openings to fourth stage, topped with 4 corner pinnacles and tall octagonal stone spire with lucarnes. West end has triple-arched entrance under hoodmould with head terminals, that to south partially blocked to form window, others with plank doors, strap hinges and overlights. Above 8 lancets with shafts and continuous hoodmould topped by rose window. SW porch and chapel, 2 storey with angle buttresses with set-offs. Pointed arched doorway to north with double doors and continuous lancets, some blind, to first floor with above set back frieze with trefoils. Nave side elevations both have 5 pairs of tall lancets between buttresses with set-offs. South chapel set transeptally with 3 graduated lancets and small shouldered arch doorway to left. North chapel has two 2-light pointed arch windows with continuous hoodmould and coped parapet. Chancel has chamfered east end with tall 2-light pointed arch windows with Y tracery and continuous sill band plus to east single similar 3-light window. INTERIOR: original north and south galleries removed and west gallery altered. 5 bay nave arcades have piers with clustered shafts and foliated capitals. Segmental arch to chancel, 2-centred to chapels. Roof with open arcading above principal ties. Furnishings include wooden linenfold panelling to sanctuary, reredos with central carved Crucifixion scene, altar rails with wrought-iron supports. Choir stalls with closed backs, open frontals and fleur-de-lys finials. Eagle lectern, elaborate wooden pulpit on clustered marble shaft base, the panels with relief carving (1895). Stained glass includes some of 1890 in north aisle and others of c1930 reputedly by Morris & Co. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: London: 1978-: 219; A History of Glossop and Whitfield Church and Parish: 38).

Listing NGR: SK0322993549

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Legacy System number:: 484710
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
A History of Glossop and Whitfield Church and Parish38
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1978), 219

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.