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KEIGHLEY HAWORTH ROAD SE 03 NW Crossroads South side 1772-/8/10001 Church of St James II

Parish church. 1909-10. Designed by J. B. Bailey and Son, Keighley, in the Perpendicular style. Nave and aisles with north porch forming the base of the proposed tower, chancel with organ chamber and vestry. Coursed and dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Slate roofs with ashlar coped gables and cross finials. West gable front has 2 deep buttresses and a single 5-light pointed, arched, panel tracery window to west, and above a small gable belllcote. South aisle has a small segment headed 2-light panel tracery window to west. To south a pointed arched doorway with double doors, then a pair of segment headed lancets, flanked by single 2-light pointed arched panel tracery windows. Clestory has four 2-light flat headed panel tracery windows. Chancel has a single lancet, to south, and a low vestry/parish room with a single 2-light chamfered mullion window to south, and to east an off-centre doorway with moulded hood and chamfered surround with to the left a single light and to the right two, 2-light chamfered mullion windows. Chancel east end has 2 deep buttresses and a large 5-light pointed arched, panel tracery window. North chancel has a single lancet and projecting organ chamber with 2 small chamfered windows to east and to south a 3-light, pointed arched, panel tracery window. Nave north clerestory has 3 windows similar to the south side. The north aisle has 2 central segment headed lancets, flanked by single 2-light segment headed, panel tracery windows. To the west a slightly projecting porch with diagonal buttresses, that to the left the base of a corner turret, this was to be lowest stage of the tower which was never built, segment headed deeply chamfered doorway with double doors. A small 2-light mullion window to west. INTERIOR: 4 bay nave, with 3 bay arcade to north and 4 bay arcade to south. Wide chancel arch. Single side arches to chancel. Queen post wooden roof to nave with arch braces, double hammer beam roof to chancel. Fittings include fine oak pews, elaborately carved choir stalls and reredos with panelling including carved priests seat. Altar rail, carved oak screen to organ chamber and carved organ case. Octagonal wooden pulpit and eagle lectern. To west carved oak panelling and elaborate coloured marble font with carved oak cover.

Listing NGR: SE0443537651

External Links

• Wikidata Q26557246

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas