Description

STRATFORD-UPON-AVON

SP25NW ALVESTON
604-1/2/269 Former Parish Church of St James
25/10/51
(Formerly Listed as:
ALVESTON
Old Parish Church)

GV II*

Chancel of former church. C18 with C19 west wall and C12
ex-situ tympanum. Painted brick on ashlar plinth, with red
brick and ashlar dressings; tile roof. Raised brick quoins and
top moulded brick cornices; ashlar-coped gables.
EXTERIOR: east window with 3-centred head and lancet tracery.
South elevation has blocked entrance to left, with brick
infill to plinth, and pointed window to right with ashlar
surround and plain panel above; 3 large wall memorial tablets
with worn inscriptions, one nowy-headed. Plain pointed west
door with plank door with straps, lancet above.
INTERIOR: tunnel-vaulted ceiling; south wall has re-set C12
tympanum in entrance recess, with worn carving of interlace,
flowers, and lamb and lion, 2 scalloped and fluted capitals.
FITTINGS: C17 panelled timber pulpit with enriched frieze and
cornice, panels with concave angles. Painting: C18 Hanoverian
Royal arms to south side.
MEMORIALS: Nicholas Lane, d.1595, upright recumbent effigy
apparently intended to be set upright; gadrooned edges to slab
with fishscale diapering; flattened figure in C16 dress with
applied face, hands and feet, standing on block with relief
couched lion, 2 small flanking figures, kneeling in prayer.
Flanking arched panels with male and female kneeling figures
facing east, each with cartouche panel above. Inscription
panel above has enriched strapwork border. Other good C18 and
C19 wall tablets, including tablet to Newsham Peers, d.1743
from wounds received at the battle of Dettingen, veined marble
with panel, scrolls to sides, broken segmental pediment with
armorial bearing, and apron with cartouche; Newsham Peers,
d.1820s, and wife: black marble tablet with white marble oval
panel and armorial bearing above with drapery tied at angles.
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: London: 1966-:
65, PL 26B; VCH (offprint): Styles P: The Borough of
Stratford-upon-Avon and the Parish of Alveston: London: 1946-:
71).

Listing NGR: SP2307956696

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17551314

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey