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Latitude: 51.618 / 51°37'4"N
Longitude: -2.4072 / 2°24'26"W
OS Eastings: 371900
OS Northings: 191098
OS Grid: ST719910
Mapcode National: GBR JZ.995Z
Mapcode Global: VH95F.7L7H
Plus Code: 9C3VJH9V+64
Entry Name: Church of St James
Listing Date: 30 March 1960
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1321189
English Heritage Legacy ID: 34623
ID on this website: 101321189
Location: St James's Church Mortuary Chapel, Churchend, South Gloucestershire, GL12
County: South Gloucestershire
Civil Parish: Charfield
Traditional County: Gloucestershire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Gloucestershire
Church of England Parish: Charfield St John
Church of England Diocese: Gloucester
Tagged with: Church building English Gothic architecture
ST 79 SW CHARFIELD CHURCHEND LANE, (east side)
2/2 CHURCH OF ST JAMES
30.3.60
G.V. I
Church, now redundant. C13; remodelled C15 and repaired l970's. West tower;
nave; south aisle; north porch; chancel. Coursed, squared rubble; Cotswold
stone slate roofs. West tower: 4 stages with a pitched roof; diagonal
buttresses with off-sets; 2-light opening with trefoil head to the bell chamber;
embattled parapet. Nave: two 3-light windows, cusped heads to tracery, under
hood mould. North porch: pierced parapet with cusped quatrefoils; central
image niche supported on angels; C17 studded plank door with fleur-de-lys ends,
moulded doorcase. Chancel: two 3-light windows, cusped heads under square hood
moulds; 3-light east window with 4-centred head; blocked priest's door. South
aisle: three 3-light windows with cusped heads and under hood moulds; panelled
south door. Interior. C15 north door of 4 panels with reticulated tracery and
fleurons. 3 bay arcade of octagonal piers and capitals. Arch-braced roofs to
nave and aisle; embattled wall plate; cusped arch-braces to five principal
trusses which rest on corbels. Squint with rood stairs built over. Chancel:
much restored; panelled soffit to chancel arch; restored trefoil headed piscina
and remains of decorative heads to image niches on east wall. Monuments: C17,
Renaissance, columns, entablature and heavily moulded cornice; Daniels, died
1717, baroque, oval tablet between drapery, cornice and heraldry above; south
aisle, Bennet died 1756, panel in aedicule, pediment and heraldry. Vested in
the Redundant Churches Fund.
Listing NGR: ST7190091098
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