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Latitude: 53.5809 / 53°34'51"N
Longitude: -2.0925 / 2°5'33"W
OS Eastings: 393969
OS Northings: 409374
OS Grid: SD939093
Mapcode National: GBR FWT1.R2
Mapcode Global: WHB94.T8Q4
Plus Code: 9C5VHWJ4+9X
Entry Name: Church of St James
Listing Date: 6 October 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1162598
English Heritage Legacy ID: 212433
ID on this website: 101162598
Location: St James's Church, Shaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester, OL2
County: Oldham
Civil Parish: Shaw and Crompton
Built-Up Area: Shaw (Oldham)
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater Manchester
Church of England Parish: East Crompton St James
Church of England Diocese: Manchester
Tagged with: Church building
SD 90 NW CROMPTON SAINT JAMES STREET
(north side)
4/29 Church of
St. James
- II
Church. 1847. By J. Clarke for the Church Commissioners.
Snecked stone with slate roof. Nave with clerestory and
aisles, south-west tower and chancel with vestry and organ
chamber. Gothic revival. 5-bay nave and aisles with
projecting plinth and weathered buttresses. Each bay has a
2-light aisle window with plate tracery and paired lancet
clerestory windows. 3-stage tower has lancet openings,
octagonal stair turret, clasping buttresses, paired belfry
openings and a broach spire with gabled lucarnes and a
crocket finial. 3-lancet east and west windows. Interior:
alternating circular and octagonal nave arcade columns with
naturalistic carving to the capitals. Wall painting above
moulded chancel arch. Scissor-braced roof trusses. Timber
and stone fittings including pews, font, pulpit and chancel
screen.
Listing NGR: SD9396909374
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