Church Of St James Approximately 50 Metres North Of Walton Hall

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SP25SE WALTON 1901-1/5/188 Church of St James approximately 50 05/04/67 metres north of Walton Hall (Formerly Listed as: WALTON Church of St James, Walton Hall)

GV II

Church. Rebuilt 1750 for Sir Charles Mordaunt; enlarged 1842 for Sir John Mordaunt. Limestone ashlar on dressed stone plinth; slate roof. PLAN: 3-bay nave and straight-ended chancel projection. EXTERIOR: 1842 chancel has angle pilasters and top entablature; Venetian east window and tall return windows with eared architraves, friezes and cornices. Nave has top cornice; windows to north and south have eared architraves, friezes and cornices, and a similar small vestry window to west end of north side. West end has pediment with 1842 bellcote in form of triumphal arch with pediment; c1900 Diocletian window above entrance which has Doric porch with triglyph frieze and guttae, and paired 3-fielded-panel doors with similar panels above. INTERIOR: dates from mostly 1842 extensions: flagged floor. Chancel has coffered barrel vault and rich mouldings to east window including band of scrolly foliage round arch. Nave walls have sill course with imbricated moulding to windows with eared architraves, friezes and cornices; rich frieze and cornice with paired acanthus modillions; coved and coffered ceiling has 3 large wheel motifs; west gallery, extended forward c1900, on timber antae with Greek Revival capitals; panelling to vestry in north-west angle incorporates 1842 stained-glass roundel from east window. FITTINGS: pudding-basin font of uncertain date, with C19 base; most furniture dates from alterations of c1900, including benches, reading desks and pulpit with guilloche mouldings and some marquetry. STAINED GLASS: 1897 east window by Clayton and Bell, similar adjacent windows dated 1905 and 1907; nave north windows dated 1902 and 1933, the latter by Maile and Son of London; south windows have 1900 decorative stained glass of roundels with undulating border. HISTORY: the original church served the lost medieval village of Walton d'Eivile, which stood to the south of Walton Hall, and which disappeared in the C16. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, N & Wedgwood, A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 441; Hamilton, E: A History of St James's Church, Walton d'Eivile: Walton: 1988-).

Listing NGR: SP2850152432