Description

SE 54 NW BILBROUGH MAIN STREET
(south side)

2/13 Church of St James

GV II

Church. C14 south-east chapel, otherwise 1873. G Fowler Jones. Sandstone
ashlar with magnesian limestone plinth, quoins and window dressings,
magnesian limestone chapel, Welsh slate roof. North-west tower, nave,
chancel, north-east vestry and south-east chapel. Gothic Revival. 3-stage
bell-tower has north entrance: single sandstone nook shafts supporting arch
with cogged moulding. Slit windows to first 2 stages. Third stage ashlar
band. Twin round-arched bell openings to each side. Modillion cogged
moulding to heads in chamfered surrounds. South side: single, round-headed
window and pair of round-headed windows all in similar surrounds to north
side. East end occupied by 2-bay chapel. Centre and diagonal buttresses.
2 pairs of straight-headed windows with Perpendicular tracery to the heads
within double-chamfered surrounds. To west end of chapel: blocked pointed
doorway in chamfered surround, a single light, straight-headed window with
Perpendicular tracery with recut quatrefoil window above in double-chamfered
surround. To east end of chapel 3-stepped round-arched windows in double-
chamfered surround under badly weathered quatrefoil light. Chancel: vestry
and one window to north, 2 windows to south, all as other C19 windows. East
end: 3 round-arched windows under quatrefoil light. Interior of chapel
contains altar tomb to Thomas, 3rd Baron Fairfax, d 1671. Magnesian
limestone ashlar and marble. In pieces awaiting restoration at time of
listing. Another of the C16. Magnesian limestone ashlar. Surrounded by
scaffolding at time of listing. Pevsner, North Yorkshire, The West Riding,
1979, p 100-101.

Listing NGR: SE5301246499

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Church of St James at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q26460135

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