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Church of St James

A Grade I Listed Building in Nayland, Suffolk

  • The Southwest Porch

  • The Green Man wooden roof boss

  • St James: Perpendicular church viewed from the north; porch completed before 1441

  • St James: c14 unbuttressed west tower with c19 brick top

  • St James: Perpendicular nave looking to renewed c14 east window

  • St James: eight painted panels, c.1500, from former rood screen; St Cuthbert, St Edmund, Pope Gregory, Henry VI, Edward the Confessor, unknown bearded king, another king & an Archbishop

  • St James: surviving fragments of wife of John Hache, 1485, in butterfly headdress holding book under arm

  • St James: civilian & wife, c.1500, longish hair on male, lady in pediment headdress

  • 'Christ Blessing the Bread and Wine', (John Constable 1776-1837), the altar, Church of St James, Nayland, Nayland-with-Wissington, Suffolk, ENGLAND, UK

  • Interior viewed west, Church of St James, Nayland, Nayland-with-Wissington, Suffolk, ENGLAND, UK

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Entry Name: Church of St James

Listing Date: 23 March 1961

Grade: I

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1033597

English Heritage Legacy ID: 278402

ID on this website: 101033597

Location: St James' Church, Nayland, Babergh, Suffolk, CO6

County: Suffolk

District: Babergh

Civil Parish: Nayland-with-Wissington

Built-Up Area: Nayland

Traditional County: Suffolk

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk

Church of England Parish: Nayland St James

Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich

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