Description

SE 22 SW HECKMONDWIKE UD CHURCH STREET
4/66
Church of St James

II

Commissioners' church in Early English style. 1830-1 by Peter Atkinson
(Jnr.). New chancel and Lady Chapel added 1905. Dressed stone
with ashlar dressings and buttresses. Slate roof. West tower
with broach spire. 7-bay buttressed nave, 2 bay chancel and
3-bay later chancel. Steeply pitched south porch with similar
baptistry to north. Plain lancets to nave and chancel. Paired
arched windows to later chancel. 5-light untraceried, stained
glass east window. 2-tier square tower with clasping and angle
buttresses. Heavily moulded doorway on south side. West lancet
window. Clock to 3 elevations. Bell chamber has triple group of
arched, louvred openings to each elevation. Hexagonal, stone broach
spire, ribbed and with gargoyles.

Interior: Plain aisleless nave. Heavily moulded arch to original chancel
on clustered colonnettes, with very steeply pointed flanking arches. New
chancel has well carved organ case to left with 4 carved angels. To
right is Lady Chapel with stained glass of 1907 and 1912, and well carved
parclose screen. Colourful reredos with well carved panelling to each
side and carved canopied figures of St Paul and St Aidan. To rear of
nave is 1st World War Memorial of carved oak panels.

Listing NGR: SE2186523432

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26587575

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Recommended Books

• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record