Former Parish Church of St James
FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187755
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Former Parish Church of St James
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1187755
- Date first listed:
- 25-Oct-1951
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 04-Apr-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Former Parish Church of St James
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratford-upon-Avon
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 23079 56696
Details
STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
SP25NW ALVESTON 604-1/2/269 Former Parish Church of St James 25/10/51 (Formerly Listed as: ALVESTON Old Parish Church)
GV II*
Chancel of former church. C18 with C19 west wall and C12 ex-situ tympanum. Painted brick on ashlar plinth, with red brick and ashlar dressings; tile roof. Raised brick quoins and top moulded brick cornices; ashlar-coped gables. EXTERIOR: east window with 3-centred head and lancet tracery. South elevation has blocked entrance to left, with brick infill to plinth, and pointed window to right with ashlar surround and plain panel above; 3 large wall memorial tablets with worn inscriptions, one nowy-headed. Plain pointed west door with plank door with straps, lancet above. INTERIOR: tunnel-vaulted ceiling; south wall has re-set C12 tympanum in entrance recess, with worn carving of interlace, flowers, and lamb and lion, 2 scalloped and fluted capitals. FITTINGS: C17 panelled timber pulpit with enriched frieze and cornice, panels with concave angles. Painting: C18 Hanoverian Royal arms to south side. MEMORIALS: Nicholas Lane, d.1595, upright recumbent effigy apparently intended to be set upright; gadrooned edges to slab with fishscale diapering; flattened figure in C16 dress with applied face, hands and feet, standing on block with relief couched lion, 2 small flanking figures, kneeling in prayer. Flanking arched panels with male and female kneeling figures facing east, each with cartouche panel above. Inscription panel above has enriched strapwork border. Other good C18 and C19 wall tablets, including tablet to Newsham Peers, d.1743 from wounds received at the battle of Dettingen, veined marble with panel, scrolls to sides, broken segmental pediment with armorial bearing, and apron with cartouche; Newsham Peers, d.1820s, and wife: black marble tablet with white marble oval panel and armorial bearing above with drapery tied at angles. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-: 65, PL 26B; VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-: 71).
Listing NGR: SP2307956696
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 366130
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Styles, P, The Borough of Stratford Upon Avon and the Parish of Alveston, (1946), 71
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 65
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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