Listed Building record MWX939 - Parish church of St James with St Paul, Church Street, Poole

Parish Church, rebuilt 1819-21 by John Kent of Southampton and Joseph Hannaford of Christchurch, in simplified Gothic style, broadly Perpendicular. Purbeck ashlar with slate roofs.

The ancient church of St James was built in the 15th and 16th centuries. It was demolished in 1819 and replaced by the present church, completed in 1820. <2-3>

Within the modern church of St James are portions of an altar tomb from the earlier church on this site. There are no other visible remains of the ancient church. <4>

Parish Church of St. James, Grade 2. Rebuilt 1820 Georgian Gothic style. Contains monuments and brasses from the earlier church. <5-6>

St. James by the Quay, the parish church of Poole (Monograph). SDO18196.

Mason, R H G, St. James' Poole Parish Church, History & Guide (Monograph). SDO18199.

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1:2500 scale, 1937 (Map). SWX1197.

St James's Church (NAT)

<2> Smith, H P, 1951, History of the Borough and County of the Town of Poole. County Corporate Status (vol. 2), p51-65 (Monograph). SWX3208.

<3> Short, B, 1932, Poole, p194 (Monograph). SWX3535.

<4> Colquhoun, F D, Field Investigators Comments FDC, F1 FDC 07-DEC-51 (Unpublished document). SWX2609.

<5> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume II (South East) Part 2, 192 (Monograph). SDO149.

<6> DOE (HRR), 30 June 1980, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Poole 1980, p4-5 (Scheduling record). SWX3744.

<7> National Record of the Historic Environment, 458238 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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