Church of St James, Elmsted

Heritage listing

Details TR 14 SW ELMSTEAD - 3/100 Church of St. James 29.12.66 GV I Parish Church. Late Cll or C12, C13 and C14, restored in 1877. Flint with stone dressings. Plain tile roofs. West tower, nave with north and south aisles, south porch, chancel with north and south chapels. West tower: C13, with late Cll or C12 base: Medieval belfry. Single stage, but north and south sides reduce in width about half way up with plain-tile shoulders. Large stone north-west and south-west quoins to lower half. Diagonal south-west buttress. Shingled timber- framed belfry jettied to west. Splay-footed octagonal spire. Two louvred three-light trefoil-headed windows to each face of belfry. No tower windows to north or east. Broadly-pointed plain-chamfered lancet towards top of west face, and another to south. Taller plain- chamfered lancet West window. Plain-chamfered pointed-arched west doorway. Nave: south elevation: continuous with south wall of tower base. C19 traceried three-light window. South aisle: C14 possibly with late Cll or early C12 origins. Narrow and gabled, stopping short of west end nave. Plinthless. Buttress towards east end. C14 or early C15 pointed west window of two cinquefoil-headed lights, with tracery of vertical bars, and hoodmould. One straight-headed C15 or C16 south window to east of porch, with two cinquefoil-headed lights and rectangular hoodmould. South porch: medieval, restored in C19. Coursed knapped flint. Gabled plain-tile roof. Window with cambered head, to each side. Crown-post roof; two outer crown posts plain. Broadly-chamfered rectangular central crown post with broach stops and head braces. Chamfered tie-beams. Pointed-arched plain-chamfered inner doorway with broach stops. Unchamfered pointed-arched outer doorway. South chancel chapel: early C14. Conti

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.