St James the Great, Snitterfield
St James the Great, Snitterfield
St James the Great is the Grade I parish church of Snitterfield, Warwickshire, a church of about 1300 with a later medieval west tower, in the Diocese of Coventry.
- Location
- Snitterfield, Warwickshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Warwickshire
- City / town
- Snitterfield
- Address
- Church Road, Snitterfield, Warwickshire, CV37 0LF
- Postcode
- CV37 0LF
- Built
- Chancel c.1300; early 14th-century nave and aisles with 15th-century clerestory; late 14th- to 15th-century west tower; restorations in the 18th century and c.1860
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- James the Great
- Diocese
- Coventry
- Parish
- Snitterfield
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Decorated and Perpendicular
- Materials
- Coursed limestone with ashlar dressings; old tile roofs with coped gables
- Grid reference
- SP 218 600
- Opening hours
- Sorry, there are no regular opening times for this church.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Accessible toilets nearby
Overview
Historic England lists the church (1382171, 5 April 1967). The chancel is about 1300; the nave and aisles are early fourteenth-century with a fifteenth-century clerestory; the west tower is late fourteenth- to fifteenth-century, with eighteenth-century and about 1860 restorations. Materials are coursed limestone with ashlar dressings and old tile roofs. The four-bay nave has contrasting arcades: octagonal piers to the north and shafted piers with unusual capitals to the south. Monuments include eighteenth-century hatchments to the Earls of Coventry. The parish website is snitterfield.com.