Description

SS92NE UPTON CP
UPTON VILLAGE

10/111 Church of St James
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- II

Parish church. Circa 1870. Squared and irregularly coursed local stone, Bath stone dressings, slate roof, decorative
ridge tiles, corrugated iron roof to vestry. Three bay nave, south porch, north-east vestry, chancel. Diagonally
buttressed west end, two 2-light windows, small rose window above, three 2-light windows on north face of nave, lean-to
roofed vestry, shouldered doorway, 2-light window on east front, octagonal chimney with gabled top, lancet to
diagonally buttressed chancel, 3-light east window, two lancets and two 2-light windows on south front, single storey
gabled wooden porch with decorative bargeboards on stone plinth, double doors with decorative hinges, lancet to right;
bell-cote over chancel arch, decorative wrought iron finial, bell in trefoil headed, gabled opening, Interior:
rendered. Perpendicular-style chancel arch with colonnettes. Two bay archbraced chancel with faces carved on corbels;
6-bay nave roof, foliage corbels. C19 fittings including pulpit, font, tiles in chancel; wrought iron altar rails;
wrought iron frame for portiere; harmonium. Three bells, unhung, and remains of possibly Saxon circular stone font from
the earlier Church of St James (qv). The earlier Church of St James was largely demolished c1870 and the present church
resited about a mile to the south on the main road through Upton village. There are tablets to the Fergusson Davie
family who were presumably instrumental in the rebuilding of the church. The east window is dated 1873.

Listing NGR: SS9958828905

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q69666249

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Recommended Books

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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990