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Latitude: 50.9849 / 50°59'5"N
Longitude: -2.8667 / 2°52'0"W
OS Eastings: 339260
OS Northings: 120964
OS Grid: ST392209
Mapcode National: GBR MC.L7JS
Mapcode Global: FRA 46WH.WJ4
Plus Code: 9C2VX4MM+W8
Entry Name: Church of St James the Less
Listing Date: 23 June 1988
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1263773
English Heritage Legacy ID: 431288
ID on this website: 101263773
Location: Church of St James the Less, Hambridge, Somerset, TA10
County: Somerset
District: South Somerset
Civil Parish: Hambridge and Westport
Built-Up Area: Hambridge
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Church of England Parish: Hambridge with Earnshill
Church of England Diocese: Bath and Wells
Tagged with: Church building
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HAMBRIDGE
4/100 Church of St James-The-Less
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GV II
Anglican church. Foundation stone laid 20.6.1842, architect Benjamin Ferrey, Coursed and squared hammer-dressed lias,
Ham stone dressings, slate roof to coped verges, cruciform finial. Nave, chancel, north organ chamber, south vestry,
slender west tower. Decorated style. Buttressed 5 bay nave, 2-light windows with cusped tracery to heads in 2 styles,
labels with very well modelled heads as stops. Small gabled south porch with coping and finial, simple chamfered inner
and outer doorways of 2 orders, ribbed inner door. Embattled tower of 2 stages with diagonal buttressed to west,
pinnacles, gargoyles, 2-light bell-chamber windows, 2-light west window, conforming style to nave; narrow west doorway.
Lean-to vestry and organ chamber, similar style to nave, Short single bay chancel, lancets to the north and south,
3-Light east window, good retriculated tracery, Mid C19 stained east window of unusual colouring and style. Interior
with many good fixtures, and furniture usual for such a modest church. Virtually unaltered since the end of the C19
inside and well illustrating the interior design of a Victorian country church.
Listing NGR: ST3926020964
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