Listing Text

NY 60 SW,
17/188

TEBAY,
TEBAY,
Church of St James

G.V.

II

Parish Church. Completed 1880, architect C. J. Ferguson. Rock-faced snecked
granite blocks; dressed-stone details. Graduated slate roofs. Built on
sloping site: Single-storey aisle-less nave and chancel; north porch and
apsidal western baptistry are 2-storey, with 3-stage bell-turret between.
5 bays overall. Chamfered plinth, with stepped buttresses, to nave and chancel; battered lower storey to baptistry and turret. Plank porch door in
pointed surround; 2 tripartite windows, with ogee heads, to left. Triple
lancet to chancel, 3-light east window. 3 windows to each floor of baptistry.
Shouldered heads to belfry openings and store door (below porch).

INTERIOR:
Polychrome brick with wide, pointed chancel arch; meeting room below baptistry
is circular in plan with central column. 1930 polygonal granite pulpit;
tapered, cylindrical granite font in baptistry. Good early C20 stained glass
by T Curtis of Ward & Hughes (London), including First World War commemorative window on south side, and Abbott & Co (Lancaster).

Listing NGR: NY6160404438