Church of St James the Great, Silsden
Description: Church of St James the Great
Grade: II
Date Listed: 25 January 1985
English Heritage Building ID: 418945
OS Grid Reference: SE0415246451
OS Grid Coordinates: 404152, 446451
Latitude/Longitude: 53.9142, -1.9383
Location: 69 Kirkgate, Silsden, Bradford BD20 0AQ
Locality: Silsden
Local Authority: Bradford
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: BD20 0AQ
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Listing Text
SE0446 SILSDEN C.P. KIRKGATE
(west side)
9/159 Church of St. James
the Great
GV II
Church. c 1816, tower raised 1896 by George Jacques. Hammer-
dressed stone, ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roof, tile ridge, lead
spire. Nave, south porch, shallow chancel and slender west tower.
Simple Gothic Revival style. 3-stage tower; 1st stage has doorway
with monolithic jambs approached up flight of stone steps and single
chamfered light over with hood mould. West face has 2-light cusped
window. 2nd stage has similar 2-light belfry with iron-grille.
3rd stage has clock set in each face and shaped parapet surmounted
by needle spirelet with weather-vane. Nave has 3 bays of 2-light
arched windows, coped gables with kneelers. Gabled porch to left
has 2-centred arched doorway with colonnettes and hoodmould. Chancel,
under lower roof-line and set back, has chamfered plinth and east
window of 4-lights with quatrefoils.
Interior: single vessel with west organ gallery carried on Doric
columns. 8-bay nave with arch-braced king-post roof with turned
king posts. Stained glass windows. Pine pews. The church
originally built 1712, is as it was altered in 1816.
N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London, 1979) p. 484.
Listing NGR: SE0415246451
Source: English Heritage
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