Church Of St James The Less

ST32SE CURRY RIVEL CP HAMBRIDGE

4/100 Church of St James-The-Less

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GV II

Anglican church. Foundation stone laid 20.6.1842, architect Benjamin Ferrey, Coursed and squared hammer-dressed lias, Ham stone dressings, slate roof to coped verges, cruciform finial. Nave, chancel, north organ chamber, south vestry, slender west tower. Decorated style. Buttressed 5 bay nave, 2-light windows with cusped tracery to heads in 2 styles, labels with very well modelled heads as stops. Small gabled south porch with coping and finial, simple chamfered inner and outer doorways of 2 orders, ribbed inner door. Embattled tower of 2 stages with diagonal buttressed to west, pinnacles, gargoyles, 2-light bell-chamber windows, 2-light west window, conforming style to nave; narrow west doorway. Lean-to vestry and organ chamber, similar style to nave, Short single bay chancel, lancets to the north and south, 3-Light east window, good retriculated tracery, Mid C19 stained east window of unusual colouring and style. Interior with many good fixtures, and furniture usual for such a modest church. Virtually unaltered since the end of the C19 inside and well illustrating the interior design of a Victorian country church.

Listing NGR: ST3926020964