Description

HORSFORTH LOW LANE
SE 23 NW
LS 18 (west side, off)
8/138 Church of St. James
19.10.1962
- II

Church. 1847-8, by C. W. Burleigh of Leeds. Coursed sandstone, slate roof.
Nave with north and south aisles under parallel roofs, chancel. Early
English style. Buttressed 5-bay aisles have 2-centred arched windows all of
2 cusped lights with trefoils or quatrefoils in the heads and all under
hoodmoulds with figured stops; north aisle has gabled single-storey porch to
2nd bay, with deeply-moulded 2-centred-arched doorway under a hoodmould with
blank-shield stops; south aisle has a triangular porch incorporated with
buttress between 4th and 5th bays of south aisle. West gable wall has a low
2-centred-arched west doorway moulded in 2 orders under a hoodmould with
figured stops, a stepped drip-mould, and a large west window of 4 cusped
lights) under a hoodmould with figured stops; and a gable bellcote; west ends
of aisles have 3-light windows with multifoil tracery. Apex crosses on all
gables. Two-bay chancel in similar style, with 3-light traceried east
window.

Interior: 5-bay aisle arcades of octagonal columns, double-chamfered arches.

Listing NGR: SE2473838324

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552210

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