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St James

St James

Braithwell

South Yorkshire

Tall chamfered C12 south door within has six crosses to lintel soffit and cable mould around tympanum carved with geometrical ornament, corbelled hood truncated by porch.

Architectural Features

C14 south aisle has later east buttress and south windows of two ogee lights in quoined, square-headed openings

to its east a deeply-recessed window of three Tudor-arched lights beneath square hoodmould, beyond is a blocked two-light, square-faced, mullioned window and to bay three the gabled organ chamber with two-light window having quatrefoils.

Aisle south wall has trefoil-headed piscina to east of chamfered floor-tomb recess Chancel arch: C13

Fittings: three C16 carved panels in later pulpit, one has kneeler, another with initials 'B.S' Monuments: stone benefactions tablets on south aisle wall, one is a corniced and architraved plaque recalling the gift of £60 p.a. by John Gleadhall (d1688).

Wall monument over aisle pier to Betta Sheppard et al. has an open segmental pediment with ball finials.

Brass behind pulpit to Ralph Purslove In chancel a cross slab to left of altar and on right a grave slab to Nathaniel Eyre