Church Of St James

NY 60 SW, 17/188

TEBAY, TEBAY, Church of St James

G.V.

II

Parish Church. Completed 1880, architect C. J. Ferguson. Rock-faced snecked granite blocks; dressed-stone details. Graduated slate roofs. Built on sloping site: Single-storey aisle-less nave and chancel; north porch and apsidal western baptistry are 2-storey, with 3-stage bell-turret between. 5 bays overall. Chamfered plinth, with stepped buttresses, to nave and chancel; battered lower storey to baptistry and turret. Plank porch door in pointed surround; 2 tripartite windows, with ogee heads, to left. Triple lancet to chancel, 3-light east window. 3 windows to each floor of baptistry. Shouldered heads to belfry openings and store door (below porch).

INTERIOR: Polychrome brick with wide, pointed chancel arch; meeting room below baptistry is circular in plan with central column. 1930 polygonal granite pulpit; tapered, cylindrical granite font in baptistry. Good early C20 stained glass by T Curtis of Ward & Hughes (London), including First World War commemorative window on south side, and Abbott & Co (Lancaster).

Listing NGR: NY6160404438