Church Of St James The Great

SNITTERFIELD

SP26SW CHURCH ROAD 1457-1/6/101 (South East side) 05/04/67 Church of St James the Great

GV I

Church. c1300 chancel; early C14 nave and aisles with C15 clerestory; late C14-C15 west tower with C18 and c1860 restorations. Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; old tile roofs with coped gables. Chancel with north vestry, 4-bay nave with aisles and tower. EXTERIOR: chancel has moulded plinth, string course and top cornice; angle buttresses. Renewed 5-light east window and 3-light renewed north and south windows, all with intersecting tracery in moulded arches; Priest's doorway to south has plank door and moulded arch. Nave has clerestory with parapet and 2-light windows; aisles have windows with Y-tracery. 3-stage tower has west entrance with moulded arch to plank door; paired 2-light transomed bell-openings; plat band and crenellated parapet with finials. Some C18 and C19 exterior memorial tablets. INTERIOR: chancel has C18 roof and renewed double piscina. Nave has 4-bay arcades, that to north with octagonal piers and stilted arches, that to south has shafted piers with unusual capitals: shafts dying into bell forms; early C16 roof, possibly taken from Fulbrook Castle; tall triple-chamfered tower arch. FITTINGS: 2 stall fronts and 2 stall ends c1530 with good carving, Perpendicular details influenced by Renaissance forms; c1630 communion rail; C19 tiles; c1730 pulpit; good early C14 font with heads coming from underside. MONUMENTS: C18 and C19 wall memorials; 2 C18 hatchments to members of the family of the Earls of Coventry. STAINED GLASS: window by F Holt of Warwick, 1877; chancel has window to Smith family by Frampton. A good church with some unusual features and fittings. (Victoria County Histories: Styles P: Victoria History of the County of Warwickshire: 1945-: 167-72; Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 154-5).

Listing NGR: SP2184260095