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St James

St James

Antony

Cornwall

The church was rededicated in 1259

Architectural Features

C14 tower, C15 aisles, first south, then north, late C19 re-roofing and alterations to some windows.

Sandstone rubble, roughly coursed on north aisle, the rest random, granite dressings, slate roofs with raised coped verges and crested ridge tiles with cross finials.

Nave and chancel in one, one chancel window and the sedilia and piscina proving that the east part belongs to the C13 phase of building

west tower, south aisle, north aisle, south and north porches, the north porch of circa 1600.

C15 building in Perpendicular style.

Pointed arched west door with hood mould and relieving arch, C19 door with strap hinges, 3- light C15 window above with cusped lights, 4-centred arch, hood mould and relieving arch

to south, C13 lancet in metamorphic stone, C19 cusped lancet to north.

Nave and chancel in one, with C19 7-bay roof of arched-braces, upper collar and collar purlin, with brattished wall-plate, east bay has C19 painting of figures of the saints.

6-bay north arcade, later C15, with Cornish standard piers.

Fittings: C19 octagonal stone font in north aisle with Perpendicular style cover.

Late C19 carved wooden pews in nave and aisles.

Pulpit in south aisle, circa 1500, with 4 carved panels of the Evangelists, possibly Spanish.

In the chancel, a pair of reading desks incorporating carved panels with figures, a tall C18 sanctuary chair with panelled back and sides.

In the nave, a slate tablet recording the foundation of a school by Sir Coventry Carew, 1766, and a metamorphic stone bowl font with moulded corners, possibly C15.

In north aisle, a C16 wooden chest used as altar.

Remains of rood screen and carved wooden cupboard with panels with heads in roundels.

Carved C19 wooden screen across tower.

Monuments in tower: baroque marble monument with convex oval slate inscription panel, festooned with flowers, putti to top and skulls below, with Corinthian columns to sides and female figures, plinth with shield of arms on apron, cornice and entablature with 2 upper putti, to Sir John Carew, 1692 and other members of the family.

marble monument with circular inscription panel, pilasters and frieze, cornice surmounted by urns with Roman columna rostrata and 2 ships, to Admiral Thomas Graves, 1755

In north aisle, a marble tablet on corbel with carved head, to Elizabeth Carew, 1679

slate tablet to Carew family with Latin inscription, 1611

monument with slate inscription panel, marble Corinthian columns with frieze and entablature, lion masks, head of putto with wings on frieze and central shield of arms, to Sara Carew, 1671

C19 marble tablet with segmental head and reclining figure, to Reginald Pole Carew died 1835

slate tablet with Latin and English verses written by Richard Carew immediately before his death, 1620

marble monument with portrait medallion, draped curtains and putti, to Mary Carew, 1731.

Large brass on chancel floor, to Margery Arundell, 1420, with a thin architectural surround with ogee arch and finials

slate tablet with plinth and cornice, inlaid brass shield of arms, to Thomas Wolsdon, 1608

marble ledger stone, to Elizabeth and Honow Carew, 1682

marble ledger stone, to Oliver Deeble, 1656

slate tablet with bolection moulded surround on plinth, to Jane Carew, 1679, with whitewashed stone shield of arms below.

Stained glass in chancel and south aisle, c.