Description

BRINDLE WATER STREET
SD 52 SE
5/54 Parish Church of St. James
17.4.67 (Formerly listed as Church of
GV St James)
II

Church. Late medieval tower and north chapel, nave of 1817, with chancel
1869-70. Sandstone with nave of dressed gritstone, slate roofs.
Perpendicular 4-stage west tower with chamfered plinth, diagonal buttresses
and south-east stair-turret, has low Tudor-arched west doorway with hollowed
surround, above this a restored 3-light window under a hoodmould with shield
stops, a clock face, and 2-light louvred belfry windows with Perpendicular
tracery and hoodmoulds; on north and south sides chamfered looplights, and
gargoyles below a dripcourse carried round the whole; embattled parapet with
crocketed corner pinnacles. Short and broad nave (extending to north of
tower), of 4 bays, has gabled porch to 1st bay on south side, large 3-light
arched windows with transoms and intersecting tracery. Two-bay chancel has
square-headed 2-light windows and large 5-light east window with Perpendicular
tracery. Chapel to north of this, raised and restored, has Tudor-arched
3-light window with hollow-moulded reveal and cusped lights, and a blank arch
above, and on the north side a square-headed window with 3 similar cusped
lights and hollow spandrels (C19 vestry covers most of this wall). Set
against the east wall of this chapel are 3 medieval gravestones with incised
crosses. Interior: wide auditorium formed by incorporation of former aisle in
early C19, formerly galleried; at east end large but unequal 2-centred arches
to chapel and chancel, with 2 orders of moulding, semi-octagonal responds; 3
large queen-post roof trusses with arch bracing to collars and much ornamental
openwork; brass chandelier of 1792 (Pevsner) with 2 tiers of arms; small stone
tub font; over south door a shouldered panel painted with arms of George III;
and on tower wall two C18 shouldered panels listing benefactions to the poor
and the school.

Listing NGR: SD5991924280

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St James' Church, Brindle at Wikipedia
• St James' Church, Brindle official website
• Wikidata Q7593427

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair