Description

ST JAMES' TERRACE
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5342 Church of St James

SE 6132 SW 4/144

II GV

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Foundation stone laid 6th May 1866. Designed by and endowed at the expense of James
Audus the younger, the prominent local philanthropist, and amateur architect.
A good example of the principles and taste of the Ecclesiological Society, and
an outstanding achievement by a little-known amateur.
Hammer-dressed stone. Ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof. Tile cresting.
Nave, chancel, lean-to aisles, "transepts", porches and west tower. Early English
style, with richly "Ecclesiological" interior.
Fittings include:
1. Exterior. Boarded doors with ornamental wrought iron hinges. Viking-style wrought
iron boot scrapers.
2. Interior. Exceptional wood and brass lectern. Marble reredos. Good organ
chest, with ornamental wrought iron hinges and stencilled patterns. Good woodwork,
especially the characteristically mid-C19 clerks desks and stalls. Very distinctive
and delicate ironwork surrounding pulpit, to communion rail, and for curtains on
inside of porch doors.

Listing NGR: SE6129932195

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461069

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Recommended Books

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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]