Church Of St James The Great

SP 84 NW HANSLOPE CHURCH END

4/71 Parish Church of St. James the Great 17.11.66

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Parish church. C12, C13, C14, C15. Chapel, 4 bays nave, aisles, vestry, north and south porches and west tower with spire. Limestone, aisles and nave with plain parapets and lead roofs. Tower built 1409 by Thomas Knight, the rector, originally 200 feet hight. Rebuilt after spire struck by lighting 1804. 5 stages. Battlemented parapet,crocketted pinnacles and spire. Spire octagonal with 3 tiers of lucarnes. Norman chancel. Arcaded exterior south wall. 5 bays divided by tall shafts with carved caps. Above arches is corbel table with carved heads. In left hand bay Norman doorway with heavily moulded arch. Small Norman windows,Decorated east chancel window. Nave clerestory six C14 windows each side. North aisle mainly 5-light C16 windows, two Early English. South aisle one Early English window, rest Perpendicular. Aisles C13, nave arcades Perpendicular with piers having semi-octagonal projections. C13 Sedilia. C1800 Pulpit. Vault to Watts family of Hanslope Park,north aisle, circa 1830.

RCHM II 136 MONUMENT 1

Listing NGR: SP8039446716