Description

TQ 2680 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SUSSEX GARDENS, W2
65/8
25.9.51 Church of St. James
GV II*
Church. 1881 by G.E. Street, with west chapel (formerly chancel) of 1841-3 by
Goldicutt and Gutch. Church oriented with chancel to west. Decorated style.
Yellow brick. Knapped flints and stone dressings. 4-bay nave, clerestory, lower
chancel. 2 stage tower to east with spire recessed behind quatrefoil parapet,
corner pinnacles with flying buttresses; and 5-light window to base. 3-light
windows to aisles, with flowing tracery; set in knapped flint walls. Clerestory
with paired 2-light traceried windows. Interior: 2-bay chancel with 7-light
flowing traceried east window, and timber tierceron vaulting. 3 oculi above
chancel arch. Nave with cloistered piers to pointed nave arcade; coved roof to
nave adorned with figures of angels; marble cladding to spandrels of arcade and
to aisle walls. South east (liturgical) chapel with central timber column.
Victorian stained glass to rest of windows. Marble font, pulpit and inlaid
reredos.
London Vol II, N Pevsner.

Listing NGR: TQ2663280923

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• St James's Church at Wikipedia
• St James's Church official website
• Wikidata Q16684477

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)