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Summary

Church of st. James and st. Anne, alfington church lane. Built in 1849, by w. Butterfield, brick, rendered, lancet windows, tile roof. Oak eagle lectern dated 1596. Monument to john coleridge patteson, bishop of melanesia who was murdered by the natives of santa cruz in september 1871.(doe).

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1212600: CHURCH OF ST JAMES AND ST ANNE

Other References/Statuses

• Church of England HER: 5008
• Old DCC SMR Ref: SY19NW/62
• Old Listed Building Ref (C)

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• CHURCH (XVIII to XXI - 1751 AD to 2009 AD (Between))

Full description

Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV127342.

Doe/hhr:ottery st. Mary/(11/1/1974)1.

Department of Environment, Untitled Source (Migrated Record). SDV328652.

Church of st. James and st. Anne, alfington church lane. Built in 1849, by w. Butterfield, brick, rendered, lancet windows, tile roof. Oak eagle lectern dated 1596. Monument to john coleridge patteson, bishop of melanesia who was murdered by the natives of santa cruz in september 1871.(doe).

Historic England, 2017, National Heritage List for England, 1212600 (National Heritage List for England). SDV359963.

The body of the church is a simple, four-bay, rectangular structure with roughcast walls. The bays are demarcated by buttresses. The nave has a plain SW porch and a W buttress which serves as a support for a bell-turret. Either side of the top of the buttress there is corbelling to carry the turret, which is a plain, rendered, rectangular box (longer E-W than N-S), and a most unusual feature. The windows are all plain lancets: the E window is formed of three graded lancets, the W one being a pair of lancets.
The walls are plastered and whitened. There is no chancel arch. The nave/chancel roof has arch braces to a collar which supports a king post: the roof is reinforced with iron ties.
The church is plainly furnished. It has low bench seating of the kind favoured by Butterfield and plain, open stalls. Commandment boards flank the pair of W windows. The font is a sturdy octagonal piece set on a low, square base. On the N there is a wall monument to John Duke Coleridge (d 1894), first Baron Coleridge who was Lord Chief Justice of England and a benefactor of and worshipper at this church: it has marble shafts at the sides and a crocketed ogee head. At the W end there is another wall monument, this one to John Coleridge Patteson `first missionary bishop amongst the Melanesia Islands' (d 1871) who was martyred in Melanesia: it is no doubt by Butterfield and has his characteristically muscular style with polychrome cusping and a vigorous crocketed surround, topped by a circular cross. The E window is by Hardman and Co of Birmingham, designed by A W N Pugin for John Duke Coleridge: it was installed in 1852 and cost £35.
E of the church is a lychgate of 1897: it has brick side walls and a timber superstructure. To the S is a large angular block forming a parsonage and school: by Butterfield, 1850.
The church was intended to be a temporary one, hence its modest structure and cheap materials. The designer, however, was William Butterfield (1829-99) who is recognised as one of the very greatest of C19 church architects. His career flourished from the mid-1840s when he was taken up by the influential Cambridge Camden (later Ecclesiological) Society as one of their favourite architects. He was responsible in the early 1850s for the great church of All Saints, Margaret Street in London which broke new ground in terms of Victorian church-building, making use of brick for the facing and the use of extensive polychromy for the detailing. Butterfield had an astonishing fertility of invention and his work often has striking originality, seen for example, in intriguing uses of geometry and the bold use of colour. Apart from All Saints, his best-known work is probably Keble College, Oxford. A devout High Churchman himself, his clients were usually of similar leanings. The choice of Butterfield arose because of his connections with the Coleridge family with whom he was working very closely on the restoration of St Mary's in Ottery St Mary.
Date first listed: 28th April 1952.

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