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Church of St James

A Grade II* Listed Building in Parkham, Devon

  • St James: c15 Perpendicular church with aisles added c16

  • St James: west tower with thin diagonal buttresses with large polygonal pinnacles added c18; restored c15 south porch

  • St James: c15 interior restored 1875; granite piers & concave octagonal capitals; north aisle added by Risdon family, the south by the Giffords of Halisbury

  • St James: memorial to Susanna Nicholls, d.1676

  • St James: monument to Robert Berry, d.1709, & wife Isett, d.1714; Corinthian columns, angels on broken pediment

  • St James: memorial to John Fortescue of Parkham (a junior branch of the Fortescues of Buckland Filleigh), d.1710

  • St James: inscription from the memorial to John Fortescue of Parkham, d.1710

  • St James: memorial to Thomas Saltren of Stone, d.1753 aged 60; heraldic cartouche

  • St James: three mutilated c18 monuments on the west wall of the north transept, the middle one consisting of urn on pediment

  • St James: memorial to the sons of Richard Cholwill, c.1720

  • St James: inscription (restored or recut) to Grace Bere (nee Boteler of Parkham), d.1628

  • St James: memorial slab to Arthur Gifford of Halisbury, d.1648 aged 2

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Entry Name: Church of St James

Listing Date: 20 February 1958

Last Amended: 19 October 1988

Grade: II*

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1326557

English Heritage Legacy ID: 91483

ID on this website: 101326557

Location: St James's Church, Parkham, Torridge, Devon, EX39

County: Devon

District: Torridge

Civil Parish: Parkham

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Parkham St James

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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