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St James

St James

Normanton on Soar

Nottinghamshire

C13, C14, C15, north transept built 1889-90 by W. S. Weatherley, repaired 1938, restored 1913.

Architectural Features

Plain tile and lead roofs.

C13 tower being of 2 stages above the transepts with clasping buttresses to the south side and the north east.

West nave with clasping buttresses and shallow chamfered plinth has a single C13 window with 5 pointed arched lights.

To the left is a single C13 round arched light with hood mould.

To the left are 3 C13 lancets.

There are 3 gargoyles.

The east wall with clasping buttresses has a single arched C13 window with 4 pointed arched lights surmounted by 4 crude quatrefoils.

The south chancel has 2 C13 lancets with hood moulds, that on the left decorated with nail head.

Further left is a single similar lancet with plain hood mould and on the far left a single arched C14 window with 2 cinquefoil arched lights and a single transom.

There are 2 gargoyles.

The south nave has a restored C15 arched 3 light window with cusped tracery.

To the left is a single C13 lancet.

Inner C13 moulded arched doorway with remains of single of 2 orders of colonnettes, hood mould.

Further left is a single C13 lancet.

Tower/chancel, nave and transept arches all C13 triple chamfered with keeled responds and moulded capitals, being decorated with nailhead to the south side.

C14 octagonal font, the pedestal decorated with quatrefoil panels and the bowl withblind tracery.

7 C17 benches.

C17 oak chest.

Over the nave/tower arch is a plaster Royal Arms, 1683, the arch is flanked by single plaster heraldic shields.

Nave roof with C15 moulded beams and carved bosses.

There are memorials to John Bosworth, 1832 and Elizabeth Cox, 1833.

There is a further memorial to Anne Bagdale, 1768, the inscription tablet is flanked by fluted pilasters with dosserets decorated with fleuron.

In the north chancel is a memorial to Frances Willoughbie, 1606, an arched niche supported on pilaster strips decorated with strapwork contains the kneeling female figure and a lectern.

There is a further memorial to William and Susanna Willougby, 1636.

Surmounting the inscription tablet are 2 kneeling figures flanked by single decorative panelled pilasters supporting an ogee arch and finial over.