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Church of St James

A Grade II Listed Building in Stourbridge, Dudley

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.4602 / 52°27'36"N

Longitude: -2.1606 / 2°9'38"W

OS Eastings: 389184

OS Northings: 284707

OS Grid: SO891847

Mapcode National: GBR 1BY.LLF

Mapcode Global: VH91H.HFMC

Plus Code: 9C4VFR6Q+3Q

Entry Name: Church of St James

Listing Date: 30 December 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1076048

English Heritage Legacy ID: 217875

Also known as: St James' Church, Wollaston, West Midlands

ID on this website: 101076048

Location: St James's Church, Wollaston, Dudley, West Midlands, DY8

County: Dudley

Electoral Ward/Division: Wollaston and Stourbridge Town

Parish: Non Civil Parish

Built-Up Area: Stourbridge

Traditional County: Worcestershire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Midlands

Church of England Parish: Wollaston

Church of England Diocese: Worcester

Tagged with: Church building

Description


1. 5106 BRIDGNORTH ROAD, WOLLASTON (North Side) SO 8984 2/61 Church of St. James

II

2. Parish Church.Circa 1860 by G.Bidlake.Black brick with limestone dressings, plinth band, quoins, cornices and gable- parapets. Plain tiled roofs. North-West tower, nave with north and south aisles and north and south porches, north and south transeptal chapels and chancel. North-west tower: three stages with clasping buttresses rising to gabled weatherings at the top of the second stage. Pierced arcaded parapet, carried on machicolations with corner pinnacles. Belfry-stage with paired belfry openings with quatrefoils inset over trilobed tracery. Triangular hoodmould over both. Octagonal clockface in second stage with flush stone band below. Small lancet window rising into this band. West doorway at ground-level with moulded arched surround carried on a single columnar order and set within a raised triangular gable-hooded surround. Nave: West wall with 4-light perpendicular-style window and three lights below with triangular hoodmoulds. Eaves cornice with corbel table. Three clerestory semi-dormers with parapet-gables and two-light windows with trefoils on quatrefoils in apices. South porch towards west and of south aisle. Moulded door surround with moulded arched-surround and capitals.Panelled doubled doors with decorative strap-hinges. Paired side windows to porch in style of quatrefoils. Aisle windows to right, two triple-arched windows divided by a low buttress. Lower transeptal chapel to right with three-light and window in a Decorated style. Chancel: South side with single window to left. East window of five lights with curvilinear tracery. North aisle with three driple-arched windows; three clerestory semi-dormer windows similar to those of the south side.

Listing NGR: SO8918484707

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