Description

GREAT YARMOUTH

TG5206NE QUEEN'S ROAD 839-1/19/145 (South side) 05/08/74 Church of St James

II

Parish church. Nave and chancel 1870-78 by JP Seddon; aisles 1902-8 by Bottle & Olley. Cut and knapped flint with red brick dressings. Slate roofs. Nave, aisles and chancel. EXTERIOR: east end with flushwork panels round the 5-light Geometric east window. Corners of chancel develop into polygonal pinnacles. East end of the aisles with one roundel each, with tracery. North aisle has a 3-bay vestry to the east lit through 3 lancets and with an arched door. West of this are three 3-light arched Perpendicular windows separated by buttresses. Portal at west end of aisle with 4 orders of chamfered brick arches. Above it is a bell-cote suspended between 2 polygonal turrets. West end lit through 2 paired lancets with 2-light Decorated tracery and a rosette above. 3-light Perpendicular south aisle windows. Lean-to aisle roofs and gabled nave roof. INTERIOR: 4-bay arcade of drum piers on tall bases with stiff-leaf capitals supporting pointed brick arches. Yellow and blue brick patterning. Boarded and arched roof. Thin timber arch differentiates nave from chancel. Rafter roofs to aisles.

Listing NGR: TG5271606548

External Links

• Wikidata Q26538438

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)