Description

The following building:-

WEST HOUGHTON ST JAMES STREET
SD 60 SE (east side) Daisy Hill

12/87 Church of St James

- II

shall be upgraded to Grade II* (star) and the entry amended to read:-

SD 60 SE WEST HOUGHTON DAISY HILL
(east side)

12/87 Church of St James

- 19.8.86 II*

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12/87 WESTHOUGHTON ST. JAMES STREET
SD 60 SE (east side)
Daisy Hill

12/87 Church of
St. James
-
- II

Church. 1879-81. By Paley and Austin. Brick and terracotta
with slate roof. Nave, chancel, north transept and vestry
and south bell turret. Nave of 3 irregular bays has sill
course and top cornice and parapet; coped gables. Windows
have Perpendicular tracery of 3 lights, the western bay on
north side has no window, the eastern bay on south side has
paired 2-light windows; weathered buttresses. Gabled north
porch; pointed entrance with carved spandrels, gable has
cusped-arched panelling. West end has 5-light window with
moulded arch in square architrave with blind tracery
spandrels. Transept has hipped roof, 3-light window and
projecting entrance under hipped roof. Organ loft has
gable-end straight-headed tracery window of 2 lights with
transom. Gabled vestry has 2-light segmental-headed east
window, straight-headed window and entrance to north.
Chancel has 2 deep, gabled buttresses flanking segmental-
headed east window of 6 lights over later lean-to shed; 4-
light segmental-headed window to north and south. bell
turret breaks forward. Pointed entrance and round-headed
lights to windows to lowest stage. 2nd stage has 2-light
traceried window to left of stair lights. Top stage has
flat gabled buttresses and 2 open traceried bell openings
and traceried gable ends; top gabled bell opening has
weather cock. Interior: Nave has king post trusses and
boarded roof. Wainscotting and sill course. Contemporary
light fittings. Chancel arch on responds; transept arch with
no capitals. Timber pulpit on stone base has frieze of
lights with rectangular pierced panels above. Chancel has
segmental-pointed timber tunnel vault. 2-bay arcade to
organ loft. Windows have inner mullions. High reredos with
linen -fold panelling and cusped panelling, high cupboard
and cresting, the altar moved forward. Sedilia and piscina
with traceried heads. Timber organ case. East window by
Morris and Co., 1897-8; Epiphany and Saints, "One of their
(Paley and Austin's) most masterly performances",
N. Pevsner "Buildings of England: South Lancashire", p.104.

Listing NGR: SD6577104347

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St James' Church, Daisy Hill at Wikipedia
• St James' Church, Daisy Hill official website
• Wikidata Q7593433

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Recommended Books

• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)