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St James

Architectural Features

The C15 work is coursed blocks of volcanic ashlar with Beerstone ashlar detail

red tile roof.

The tower is still C15, so too is the porch.

It is 3 stages with diagonal buttresses and embattled parapet with corner pinnacles and gargoyles.

Good late C15 - early C16 porch is left of centre.

It has an embattled Beerstone parapet panelled with trefoils and quatrefoils, it includes a central image niche (with nodding ogee canopy and corbels carved as Green Men) and the cornice is enriched with 4-leaf motifs.

The label stops of the hoodmould are carved as angels holding shields.

Nave and south aisle have open wagon roofs with moulded ribs and purlins, carved oak bosses and the nave includes a more ornate boarded ceilure.

The chancel has a completely C19 copy and the north aisle has a C19 open lean-to roof with Gothic carvings.

C19 chancel arch springing from carved corbels.

South arcade is Beerstone, 5 bays (1 overlapping the chancel) with moulded piers (Pevsner's type B) and carved capitals.

Plastered walls. (A medieval wall painting was found on the north wall of the nave in the C19).

C19 tile floor with increasing number of encaustic tiles through the chancel.

Rood Screen: ornate C15 oak screen.

The parclose is also C15 oak but much plainer

C19 octagonal pulpit with panelled sides.

Good oak eagle lectern.

Most of the benches in the nave are C15

oak with the same 2 tiers of cinquefoil-headed panels carved in their ends.

Norman font of a hard grey stone

C17 oak altar table with turned legs in south aisle and nave includes a plain C17 oak chest.

Memorials: most are in the south aisle and these make up a good collection from the C18 and C19

However the best monument is now in the tower.

It is dated 1613 in memory of the Rev. John Leach.

The plaque has a richly carved Beerstone frame flanked by Corinthian columns with moulded entablature, scroll consoles and the apron features a skull.

This monument is flanked by hatchments painted with the Kennaway arms.

C18 stucco Royal arms over south door.

Some C19 and C20 stained glass.