St James the Great, Ince
St James the Great, Ince
St James's is a Grade II* Church of England parish church on Pool Lane, Ince, Cheshire, in the Diocese of Chester and the parish of Thornton-le-Moors with Ince and Elton.
- Location
- Ince, Cheshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Cheshire
- City / town
- Ince
- Address
- Pool Lane, Ince, Cheshire, CH2 4NX
- Postcode
- CH2 4NX
- Built
- C14 chancel; tower c.1485–93; nave and porch rebuilt 1854
- Architect
- Simon Ripley (tower); Edward Hodkinson (1854 rebuild)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- James the Great
- Diocese
- Chester
- Parish
- Thornton-le-Moors with Ince and Elton
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Gothic; Perpendicular rebuild
- Materials
- Red sandstone with grey slate roofs
- Grid reference
- SJ 449 763
- Opening hours
- Open daily, dawn to dusk.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England records a red sandstone church with grey slate roofs, partly rebuilt in 1854 by Edward Hodkinson. The plan is nave, north aisle, chancel, south porch and west tower. The chancel has a fourteenth-century three-light east window with original simple tracery and fifteenth-century two-light square-headed side windows. The west tower, of about 1485–93, is by Simon Ripley; it was raised two courses in 1854 and has diagonal buttresses. Nave, aisle and porch were wholly rebuilt in 1854 in Perpendicular style.
Interior fittings include a seventeenth-century oak arch-braced collar roof to the chancel, bells of 1622 and 1636, a late seventeenth-century altar rail with spiral-turned balusters, a carved oak sanctuary chair of 1634, and an early eighteenth-century brass candelabrum.