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Description: Church Of St. James

Address: St James Church Church Lane Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Church Lane, Mytholm, Hebden Bridge

Full description:
Commissioners' church, by Pickersgill and Oates (York) c1833 with additions and alterations 1874 to 1876 by R. Norman Shaw. At this date the north and south galleries and the ceiling were removed. Ashlar, slate roof. West tower, nave, south porch and chancel. Lancet style. 3 stage embattled tower has angle buttresses which rises to form pinnacles. Doorway in 1st stage. Single light window with clock face over to second. Single light belfry window to 3rd stage. 5-bay nave, with angle buttresses rising to form pinnacles and off-set buttresses between each bay which has tall pointed arched windows with hoodmould. Parapet. Porch in 1st bay has angle buttrusses, pinnacles and parapeted gable with pointed arched doorway. Chancel (1876) of 2 bays with single storey side aisles with 3-light arched windows with hoodmould, parapet with trefoil, gothic capping. Chancel has 2-light arched clerestorey windows with quatrefoil over under arched hoodmould. 3-light lancet east window. Interior: Wide bare nave without aisles, queen-post roof. Tall pointed chancel arch with to either side smaller arches to aisles. That to south forms memorial chapel to George Sowden, Honorary Canon of Wakefield and Vicar of the church for 37 years who died 1899. Arcade to either side of chancel. Furnishings: Carved reredos by Alfonso Noflaner c.1934 to celebrate the centenary. All windows have stained glass illustrating the life of Christ mostly dating from the 1870's, all by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. Stone carved pulpit is carried on marble columns. The rear gallery has been boxed in c1983 to form enclosed vestibule and meeting room. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding (1967), p.260.