St James, Croxton

History of St James, Croxton

Listed Building

Parish Church. Chancel, nave and aisles late C13, partly rebuilt late C14 and C15. Tower c.1500. North doorway C14 possibly rebuilt 1622. Nave and aisle roofs 1659. (Historic England)

A tall, square stone church tower with crenellated parapets and buttresses, set in a graveyard with a arched west doorway.

Croxton church tower c.1500 (RCHM)

Interior view of a church featuring dark wooden pews and ornately carved gothic screens beneath stone arches.

Croxton church 15th cent. (RCHM)

A large, complex clock mechanism with metal gears and drums mounted inside a heavy wooden frame with turned upright posts.

Croxton church clock and frame, 1682 (RCHM)

A stone font with an octagonal bowl and base stands against a masonry wall in black and white.

Croxton 13th cent font (RCHM)

An ornate stone wall monument features four classical columns supporting a heavy canopy over a central inscribed Latin tablet.

Croxton church, monument to Edward Leeds, 1589 (RCHM)

Projects

Croxton

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