List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES
List entry Number: 1072542
Location
PARISH CHURCH OF ST JAMES, WATER STREET
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Lancashire | Chorley | District Authority | Brindle |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 17-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment: 30-Jan-1987
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 184305
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
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
Selected Sources
- Article Reference - Author: Nikolaus Pevsner - Title: North Lancashire The Rural North - Date: 1969 - Journal Title: The Buildings of England
National Grid Reference: SD 59919 24280
Map
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