Roman Catholic Church Of St James (Spanish Place)

TQ 2881 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER GEORGE STREET, W1 44/44 (north side) 10.9.54 Church of St James (spanish Place) (RC) GV II* church, 1885-90 by Edward Goldie. Kentish rag with ashlar dressings and stone vaulted interior; slate roof. Nave, aisles and narrow outer aisles, non-projecting transepts, apsidal chancel and north Lady chapel. Ambitious and highly serious Early English design. North and south porches; lower north chancel chapel as Lady Chapel; buttresses and flying buttressed clerestory. Lofty stone interior with 8-bay arcade with shafted piers; full gallery, bridged across transepts (in Pearson manner); quadripartite stone vaulting; the Lady Chapel also vaulted and both north aisles; the outer aisles have confessionals built into wall arcade. Rich furnish- ings by Bentley; reredos and hanging baldacchino by Garner.

Listing NGR: TQ2828081539