Church Of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 October 1987. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of St James
- WRENN ID
- ragged-bailey-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 October 1987
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SD 90 NW CROMPTON SAINT JAMES STREET (north side) 4/29 Church of St. James - II Church. 1847. By J. Clarke for the Church Commissioners. Snecked stone with slate roof. Nave with clerestory and aisles, south-west tower and chancel with vestry and organ chamber. Gothic revival. 5-bay nave and aisles with projecting plinth and weathered buttresses. Each bay has a 2-light aisle window with plate tracery and paired lancet clerestory windows. 3-stage tower has lancet openings, octagonal stair turret, clasping buttresses, paired belfry openings and a broach spire with gabled lucarnes and a crocket finial. 3-lancet east and west windows. Interior: alternating circular and octagonal nave arcade columns with naturalistic carving to the capitals. Wall painting above moulded chancel arch. Scissor-braced roof trusses. Timber and stone fittings including pews, font, pulpit and chancel screen.
Listing NGR: SD9396909374
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