Church Of St James

ST 68 NE 1/34

TYTHERINGTON C.P. STOWELL HILL Church of St. James

G.V. II*

Anglican Parish Church. C13, C14, C15, major restoration, 1884 by Pope and Paul of Bristol. Rubble, plain clay tile roofs, raised coped verges with saddlestones. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, south chapel, chancel. Perpendicular tower of 2 stages, diagonal buttresses, castellated parapet with crocketed corner finials, square north stair turret, small 2-centered arch west door under heavy hoodmould, 3-light window above, second stage has one louvred, 2-light window under hoodmould per side, gabled nave, gabled north aisle has 2 windows with reticulated tracery, and 2 Perpendicular windows, narrow south aisle, west window is a lancet, there is a 2-light Perpendicular window to the right of the gabled C19 south porch, then a low, chamfered, four centered arched priest's door, although there is no break, the square headed 4-light Perpendicular window with hoodmould to the right is that to the south chapel which also has a 3-light pointed late Perpendicular east window, gabled chancel with raised quoins and a 3-light Decorated east window. Interior: tall and narrow tower arch, 3-bay south arcade has octagonal piers with feet, 3-bay north arcade has piers with clustered shafts under a continuous hoodmould, wagon roofs, fragment of carved stone reset by rebuilt chancel arch, rebuilt south chapel has cusped remnants of a tomb recess and a plain, pointed piscina. Memorials: south aisle; Bridges, 1657 cherubs and memento mori around text below pediment with consoles; Webb/Pullin, 1714, text in frame of Ionic columns, apron, entablature, swan neck pediment with urn; Pullin, 1729, text in cartouche between fluted, Ionic pilasters, gadrooned plinth, apron, putto, entablature, scrolled pediment with urn; north aisle; Hobbs, 1727, engraved wall-mounted slab; Davies, 1766, marble; Hobbs, 1777, dark marble ground, festoons, broken pediment with urn; Hobbs, 1830, marble, text between consoles, entablature with acroterion and urn; 3 C19 tablets in nave. (Source: D. Verey : Buildings of England, Gloucestershire The Vale and The Forest of Dean. 1970).

Listing NGR: ST6685688374