Description

SU 76 NE
9/38

BARKHAM
CHURCH LANE (east side)
Church of St. James

26.1.67

GV
II

Parish church. 1862 by John B. Clacy and son, in the Early English style, on an old site; chancel and transepts 1887. Flint with Bath stone dressings, tiled, coped, gabled roof. Chancel, north and south transepts, north vestry, and nave with a south tower. The tower is in three stages; the lower stage has set-back buttresses and serves as a porch. The top stage is of wood and has a small octagonal shingled spire. The windows are pointed and trefoiled.

Interior: the nave has five bays of arch braced collar trusses with nailhead ornament, and several C18 memorial slabs in the floor. The font is stone and late C18. In a recess on the east wall of the porch is a late C13 oak effigy of a lady in a long loose dress and linen head-dress. Both the hands are missing and the face is damaged.

Listing NGR: SU7840566430

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26411582

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