Church Of St James

SD 52SW LEYLAND SLATER LANE

8/45 Church of St. James - - II

Church 1854-5, by Ewan Christian. Stone with slate roofs. Early English style. West tower with splay-footed spire, nave and 2 aisles separately roofed making 3 parallel ridges. Tower has angle buttresses, deeply recessed west. window with sloping sill and plate tracery, and one belfry louvre on each side, each with pointed arch and chamfered splay. Entrance in centre of north aisle has gabled porch with low eaves; all aisle windows (2 on north side, 3 on south side) have plate tracery in two- centred arches. Angled buttresses to both aisles and chancel. East window of 3 narrow cusped lights in plate tracery. Interior: the three adjoined vessels of nave and aisles make a square plan broken only by the nave arcade of three 2-centred arches carried on short octagonal columns, and dying at the east and west ends into foliated imposts; chancel continues nave and both have an open collar rafter roof; east wall of chancel has a blind arcade of trefoils. In south aisle is fine monumental effigy of Sarah Esther Farrington, died 1863, originally in chancel together with Farrington family pews, which were also removed. Church built at expense of Mrs. Farrington, on being widowed shortly after her marriage.

Listing NGR: SD5173021752