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Key Image St James
Church St
GL55 6JG Chipping Campden
United Kingdom
Denomination: Anglican
Congregation: St James’ (Diocese of Gloucester, Archdeaconry of Cheltenham, North Cotswold)
Geogr. Coordinates: 52.05326° N, 1.77579° W
Geo Location
Reference year: 1170
Architectural style: Gothic
Building type: Basilica
Description: Three-aisled basilica with west tower in the Perpendicular style
Name derivation: From St James the Apostle
Building material
  • Cotswold limestone
Font
  • Font (c. 1250, cut in halves (!) in 1727)
Noteworthy
  • Brass tomb slabs of the so-called “Wool Barons” (15th cent.)
  • Altar frontals of damask (15th cent.)
  • Ambo (1618)
  • Gainsborough Chapel (tombs of the Hicks, Gainsborough and Noel families, 17th cent.)
History:
About 1170:   Original Norman church (remains in the south wall)
1260:   Addition of the south aisle
1355:   Enlargement of the chancel, construction of the crypt and the south porch
1450:   Repeated reconstruction of the south wall
1470:   Raising of the chancel ceiling
1480:   New windows in the north wall, reconstruction of the northern chapel
1500:   Completion of the 10-year rebuilding of the nave with clerestory, construction of the tower
Important persons:
Patron:  James (d. c. 43, apostle, martyr)
Dimensions:
Tower Height [m]:  36
Sources
St James: Kirchenführer „St James Chipping Campden“
Surman, Richard: Betjeman’s Best British Churches, Collins, London 2011
Verey, David: Cotswold Churches, Nonsuch Publishing, Stroud 2007
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