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Latitude: 52.2777 / 52°16'39"N
Longitude: 1.6264 / 1°37'35"E
OS Eastings: 647474
OS Northings: 270594
OS Grid: TM474705
Mapcode National: GBR YXX.40Z
Mapcode Global: VHM7K.40PQ
Plus Code: 9F437JHG+3H
Entry Name: Church of St James
Listing Date: 7 December 1966
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1283930
English Heritage Legacy ID: 285539
ID on this website: 101283930
Location: St James's Church, Dunwich, East Suffolk, IP17
County: Suffolk
District: East Suffolk
Civil Parish: Dunwich
Traditional County: Suffolk
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Suffolk
Church of England Parish: Dunwich St James
Church of England Diocese: St.Edmundsbury and Ipswich
Tagged with: Church building
TM 47 SE DUNWICH LEET HILL
7/23 Church of St. James
7.12.66
GV II
Parish church. Nave, chancel, west tower, south porch. 1837-42 by Robert
Appleton; considerably altered 1881, probably by E.F. Bisshopp: chancel
added, nave cased in flint and given new windows, tower rebuilt and interior
re-cast. Brick core with random flint and stone facing, stucco dressings;
plaintiled roof with crest tiles, slates to porch. Narrow square tower,
diagonal buttresses to west face, crenellated parapet; narrow lancet bell 1
chamber openings, clock face to north. Nave with 3 2-light windows in
Decorated style to north and south; chancel with one broad lancet to north and
south and a 3-light semi-circular headed east window with wooden reticulated
tracery. Good 7 bay arch-braced nave roof, 3-bay chancel roof of similar
design, both with richly carved corbels to wall posts. Set of 32 benches to
nave with carved poppyheads; other good carved woodwork includes rood screen,
pulpit, altar rails, stalls, holy table and reredos; octagonal font in Norman
style. Monument to Michael Barne (d.1837) by William Behnes on north chancel
wall: sarcophagus with profile head in relief, long inscription; south
sanctuary wall with monument to Frederick Barne (d. 1886), the last M.P. for
Dunwich; in the south west corner of the nave is a mounted fragment of a C16
brass inscription from All Saints Church.
Listing NGR: TM4747470594
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