Parish Church of Saint Philip and St James

Heritage listing

Details ILFRACOMBE SS5247 ST JAMES' PLACE 853-1/7/125 Parish Church of SS Philip and James 16/03/92 II* Anglican church. 1856 by John Hayward. Geometrical Decorated style. MATERIALS: snecked rubble with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with fishscale banding to spire. PLAN: Nave of 5 bays (with narthex), aisles, N porch, N transeptal steeple and S transeptal organ chamber, chancel, N chancel aisle, SE vestry. EXTERIOR: W end with 2 paired lights under cusped roundel flanked by buttresses with set-offs which project to clasp narthex which has 2 doorways to either side of a window (formerly a doorway). 3-light aisle windows. 2-light windows to aisles and spherical triangular windows to clerestory. Porch with heavy low buttresses and contemporary wooden gates. N chancel aisle with taller 2-light windows and more elaborate moulded surrounds and ball-flower to cornice. Prominent steeple: 3-stage tower with angle buttresses which to the NE incorporate the stair turret; deeply recessed 2-light belfry openings; cornice and pyramidal spire. 5-light E window. INTERIOR: nave piers alternating octagonal and circular in section, capitals with naturalistic foliage carving, moulded arches under continuous hood mould. Clerestory windows in richly moulded surrounds with shafts and hood-moulds and sills with ball-flowers. Internal shafting also to aisle windows. Arch-braced roof with collars, ashlar pieces and wind braces, 2 sets of side purlins and shafts on foliated stone corbels. Chancel: 3-bay arcade to N with polished limestone circular section piers, foliated capitals. Roof as to nave. S arch gives access to organ chamber. FITTINGS: stone reredos, a 2:3:2 gabled arcade with richly crocketed and finialed framing texts on slate, forms a single ensemble with the 2-seat sedilia to S.

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.