Church Of St James

SE 37 NE BALDERSBY WIDE HOWE LANE (north side) Baldersby St James 3/24 Church of St James - 26.5.71 GV I

Church. 1856-58. By William Butterfield for Viscount Downe of Baldersby Park. Snecked stone with ashlar details. Red tile roof with lead on north aisle and vestry. High Victorian style: west tower, 5-bay aisled nave with south porch, 2-bay unaisled, lower chancel. 3-stage west tower with banded masonry surmounted by spire with lucarnes. Nave: 2-light Early English style windows with round windows to west end of aisles and vesica east window in south aisle. Chancel: Early English style windows and a 3-light, geometrical east window with cinquefoil motif in 3 roundels. Interior: nave has quatrefoil piers with fillets and bell capitals, brick interior walling with ashlar bands and inlaid circular motifs. Chancel arch has attached columns and there is a low, pierced, stone screen. Butterfield's decorative scheme and fittings remain virtually intact, including inlaid floor tiles, sanctuary walls of red-veined alabaster, painted chancel roof, wrought iron corona lucis, screens, etc. Font of inlaid marble with tall spire-like cover suspended from iron rods and with counter-weight in the form of a dove.

Listing NGR: SE3662476957