5ml tube

The Roman Catholic Church of St James, Spanish Place

Church of St James (Spanish Place) (RC) GV II* church, 1885-90 by Edward Goldie. Kentish rag with ashlar dressings and stone vaulted interior; slate roof. Nave, aisles and narrow outer aisles, non-projecting transepts, apsidal chancel and north Lady chapel. Ambitious and highly serious Early English design. North and south porches; lower north chancel chapel as Lady Chapel; buttresses and flying buttressed clerestory. Lofty stone interior with 8-bay arcade with shafted piers; full gallery, bridged across transepts (in Pearson manner); quadripartite stone vaulting; the Lady Chapel also vaulted and both north aisles; the outer aisles have confessionals built into wall arcade. Rich furnish- ings by Bentley; reredos and hanging baldacchino by Garner.

To read more about the church, its history and building, you can visit the Wikipedia article, or the church's own website.

Personal Note - I like to create CMs at churches with which I have a personal connection or memory. Being a choral singer, many of these may be to do with singing. Although I have never performed at St James's, I have always admired and respected the building, being positioned so in central London, almost as though it has forgotten to move with the times, and stands apart from the hustle and bustle of the surrounding streets. 

****************** ********************
For full information on how you can expand the Church Micro series by sadexploration please read the Place your own Church Micro page before you contact him at churchmicro.co.uk

See also the Church Micro Statistics and Home pages for further information about the series.
****************** *******************