Church Of St James is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 November 1980. A Victorian Church.
Church Of St James
- WRENN ID
- sheer-plaster-sparrow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 November 1980
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST JAMES' TERRACE 1. ----------------- 5342 Church of St James
SE 6132 SW 4/144
II GV
- Foundation stone laid 6th May 1866. Designed by and endowed at the expense of James Audus the younger, the prominent local philanthropist, and amateur architect. A good example of the principles and taste of the Ecclesiological Society, and an outstanding achievement by a little-known amateur. Hammer-dressed stone. Ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof. Tile cresting. Nave, chancel, lean-to aisles, "transepts", porches and west tower. Early English style, with richly "Ecclesiological" interior. Fittings include: 1. Exterior. Boarded doors with ornamental wrought iron hinges. Viking-style wrought iron boot scrapers. 2. Interior. Exceptional wood and brass lectern. Marble reredos. Good organ chest, with ornamental wrought iron hinges and stencilled patterns. Good woodwork, especially the characteristically mid-C19 clerks desks and stalls. Very distinctive and delicate ironwork surrounding pulpit, to communion rail, and for curtains on inside of porch doors.
Listing NGR: SE6129932195
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