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Church of St James, Sheffield Road, Anston

Grade I Listed

List Entry Number: 1192792

SK 51964 83704

NORTH AND SOUTH ANSTON SHEFFIELD ROAD SK58SW (south side), South Anston 5/70 Church of St. James 29.7.66 I

Church. C14 with C15 tower and clerestorey, restored 1886 and 1890. Ashlar and dressed limestone, lead and green slate roofs. West tower, 3-bay aisled nave with south porch, 2-bay chancel with single-bay south vestry in overlap of aisle. Tower: Perpendicular style. Chamfered plinth and moulded band. Diagonal buttresses flank west door offset to the north and having moulded, hollow-chamfered surround and hoodmould; 3-light window over has cusped, pointed lights and hoodmould; slit windows to internal stair on right. Large iron clock faces to north and west. String course beneath pointed 2-light belfry openings with louvres; another beneath embattled octagonal parapet with buttresses rising as crocketed corner pinnacles. Recessed octagonal spire with weathervane. Nave: gabled porch to bay 1 has double-chamfered south door with hoodmould. Buttresses between other bays having square-headed 3-light windows with restored Decorated-style tracery and deep hoodmoulds; plainly-coped parapets. C15 clerestorey has 2-light windows with ogee lights beneath square heads, hoodmould with good head-and animal-carved stops; embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Chancel: narrower. Overlapping south vestry addition has snecked walling and window in style as nave as is south chancel window. C14 east window of 5 lights with flowing tracery and hoodmould. Pointed, 2-light north windows. East gable copings with cross. Interior: double-chamfered tower arch rises from chamfered, quoined jambs. 3-bay north and south arcades: octagonal north piers and imposts with simple capitals, south piers are quatrefoil and have moulded capitals; double-chamfered arches. Arched recesses in north and south aisle walls, that to north with C14 monument. Original C14 east window of south aisle preserved in-situ, also in south aisle an elaborate double piscina with ogee-headed openings. Chancel: double-chamfered arch on half-quatrefoil responds. C14 sedilia: 3 seats divided by slender, chamfered shafts, moulded arches beneath castellated cresting. Fittings:carved reredos depicting last supper, 1900. Monuments: in north aisle recess, an effigial slab of lady with small daughter by her side, her pillow held by angels whilst another reaches down to the child. Brass to east of vestry door to Mary Hutton (d 1662).

Listing NGR: SK5196483702

historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1192792

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St James, Anston, South Yorkshire.
Grade l listed.

Dating from Norman times, the church will give you a sense of the history of the area. Anston, whose name derives from ‘Anastan’ a solitary stone, is known to have had prehistoric settlements in the area. A Romano-British farmstead and fields were excavated to the south of the church in the 1960s.

There has been a place of worship in Anston since at least 1171 and St James has survived the upheavals of civil war, poverty and sickness. The lovely limestone church you see today dates mostly from the 14th century, with the tower being added in the 15th century. The building has grown over the years to reflect the changing and expanding community and only a few stones, incorporated into the tower, remain of the original building.

Some of the many interesting features that you will see are:

-The tower, which has fragments of Norman stones built into the north wall of the tower’s base. Eight bells are hanging in the tower, six dating from 1871.

-A 14th century effigy. This beautiful and very rare effigy, of a father and his daughter, stood outside the church for many years, but is now sited near the font at the west end of the nave.

-Some of the pillars between the nave and the aisles have holes in them (now filled in) which are thought to have been caused by musket balls during the Civil War of the 1640s.

Taken on: June 25, 2011

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