St James is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1987. A Medieval Church, house.

St James

WRENN ID
sacred-rafter-dock
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Huntingdonshire
Country
England
Date first listed
3 February 1987
Type
Church, house
Period
Medieval
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

St James is a former parish church that has been converted into a house. The chancel dates from the mid-13th century, while the nave was built in the late 14th century. It was restored in 1914 and converted into a dwelling around 1980. The building features fieldstone and limestone rubble walls with limestone dressings, and it has plain tiled roofs with an end parapet. The west end of the nave includes a gable bellcote that houses two bells, and the lines of an earlier roof can still be seen.

The layout consists of a nave and chancel. The nave has two-stage diagonal buttressing at the south-west corner and two-stage angle buttressing along the side wall. There are two early 16th-century nave windows, each with two cinquefoil lights and vertical tracery set in a four-centred arch. The doorway features a two-centred arch with continuous moulded orders, while the chancel's south doorway has a square head with stop-chamfered jambs. There is a low side window and another window with two trefoil lights in a square head. The east window of the chancel, dating from the 14th century, has two cinquefoil lights with reticulated tracery in a two-centred arch. The north wall of the nave has two late 14th-century windows, each with two cinquefoil lights and a quatrefoil in a two-centred head, and between these windows is a 14th-century doorway with a two-centred arch of two chamfered orders.

Inside, the chancel arch is from the 14th century, featuring a two-centred design with two chamfered orders, the inner one resting on engaged columns with moulded capitals and bases. There is a piscina in the south wall of the nave with a trefoil two-centred arch. The nave roof, dating from the 19th century, incorporates stop chamfers with nick tiebeams and arch bracing from a roof built around 1600. In the chancel, the piscina has a depressed pointed arch with trefoil and roll moulding at the points.

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