Church Of St James The Great

SE0446 SILSDEN C.P. KIRKGATE (west side)

9/159 Church of St. James the Great

GV II

Church. c 1816, tower raised 1896 by George Jacques. Hammer- dressed stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof, tile ridge, lead spire. Nave, south porch, shallow chancel and slender west tower. Simple Gothic Revival style. 3-stage tower; 1st stage has doorway with monolithic jambs approached up flight of stone steps and single chamfered light over with hood mould. West face has 2-light cusped window. 2nd stage has similar 2-light belfry with iron-grille. 3rd stage has clock set in each face and shaped parapet surmounted by needle spirelet with weather-vane. Nave has 3 bays of 2-light arched windows, coped gables with kneelers. Gabled porch to left has 2-centred arched doorway with colonnettes and hoodmould. Chancel, under lower roof-line and set back, has chamfered plinth and east window of 4-lights with quatrefoils.

Interior: single vessel with west organ gallery carried on Doric columns. 8-bay nave with arch-braced king-post roof with turned king posts. Stained glass windows. Pine pews. The church originally built 1712, is as it was altered in 1816.

N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London, 1979) p. 484.

Listing NGR: SE0415246451