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Church of St James

A Grade II* Listed Building in Hindpool, Cumbria

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Coordinates

Latitude: 54.119 / 54°7'8"N

Longitude: -3.2337 / 3°14'1"W

OS Eastings: 319460

OS Northings: 469944

OS Grid: SD194699

Mapcode National: GBR 5NVT.Q6

Mapcode Global: WH72H.9QDN

Plus Code: 9C6R4Q98+JG

Entry Name: Church of St James

Listing Date: 6 May 1976

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1197881

English Heritage Legacy ID: 388416

ID on this website: 101197881

Location: St James's Church, Hindpool, Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, LA14

County: Cumbria

District: Barrow-in-Furness

Electoral Ward/Division: Hindpool

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Barrow-in-Furness

Traditional County: Lancashire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria

Church of England Parish: Barrow-in-Furness St James

Church of England Diocese: Carlisle

Tagged with: Church building Gothic Revival

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Description



BARROW IN FURNESS

SD16NE BLAKE STREET
708-1/5/31 (North West side)
06/05/76 Church of St James

II*

Church. 1867-69. By EG Paley, vestry added 1883. Red brick
with blue brick patterning; ashlar sandstone dressings and
spire; green slate roof.
6-bay nave with lean-to aisles and south porch; polygonal apse
to chancel with 4-stage tower and spire on south side, organ
chamber to north and vestry at end of corridor wing projecting
east. Gothic Revival style: Geometrical and plate tracery.
Orientated NE/SW, ritual orientation used here.
Nave: chamfered plinth; offset buttresses between bays;
2-light windows with cusping, plate tracery, head-carved
hoodmould stops and blue-brick relieving arches. Porch to bay
2: red sandstone colonnettes to enriched moulded arch,
head-carved hoodmould stops, plainer arch within, 2-light side
windows; steep gable with copings and cross.
Clerestorey: pilaster strips between 2-light windows with
colonnettes; brick cogging; ashlar gutter. Buttresses flank
west window of 6 lights with king mullion, rose and hoodmould;
blue-brick patterning on steep gable, ashlar copings.
Tower: chamfered plinth, pilaster buttresses ending in offsets
above 3rd stage. Colonnettes to trefoiled south door under
arch with nailhead and hoodmould with angel stops; gablet
over. 2-light window to east side. 2nd stage has trefoiled
3-light windows in arcading with continuous hoodmoulds;
lancets to 3rd stage. Ashlar offset below louvred, 3-light
belfry openings having impost band and tracery under pointed
arches with hoodmoulds. Octagonal spire springs from gables
with low-set splays between; lucarnes and weathervane.
Chancel: lower; apse has buttress and plain east window
flanked by traceried 2-light windows; carved eaves to hipped
roof with cross. Organ chamber with rose window and 2-flue
stack on north gable. Vestry, further east than the apse, has
pointed door and window of 2 rounded lights to south; brick
stack on left.
INTERIOR: arcades have quatrefoil, sandstone piers and brick
arches with ashlar hood-moulds; painted brickwork above.
Composite roof of king-post and scissor-braced trusses.
Alabaster font and arcaded, alabaster pulpit on sandstone
plinth. Stalls at west end, the central 3 with crocketed
canopies. Organ rebuilt from that purchased for St James'
Palace by William IV in 1837, the makers Hill and Davison;
used at the wedding of Queen Victoria in 1840 but disposed of
in 1866 and brought to Barrow 1868.
HJ Austin joined EG Paley in 1868 and the final scheme here is
likely to show his influence. 'The best church in Barrow'
(Pevsner); the brick arcading ahead of its time and probably
inspired by GE Street.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Lancashire: London:
1969-: 33, 56).


Listing NGR: SD1946069944

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