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

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26538438

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (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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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)