St James' Church is a Grade II listed building in the Rhondda Cynon Taf local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 10 January 1991. Church.
St James' Church
- WRENN ID
- second-railing-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 10 January 1991
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Early Gothic with simple Arts and Crafts influence; red brick with purple tiled roofs. Aisless 4-bay nave with W bellcote and S porch and lower 2-bay chancel with N vestry. Rendered W end and plinth; stepped buttresses to the eastern bay of the nave. Lancet windows with voussoirs and labels; diamond leaded glazing; 3-light E window with stepped up central lancet. Stepped pyramidal bellcote with timber openwork bellstage the roof of which has swept eaves and crucifix finial. 4 cusped arches to each side. Half timbered porch on brick base; pendant and finial broken, S-shaped braces to the sides. Pointed arch entrance with boarded doors.
Rendered interior with red brick dressings. Arched braced collar trusses springing from low set stone corbels; boarded roof. 2-order chancel arch; low arch to vestry on N side of chancel now infilled. Sanctuary is part wainscoated with Gothic panelling. Decorated Gothic pulpit, octagonal font and low iron chancel screen with gates.
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