East Wall with Clayton & Bell windows

George Edmund Street

1861

Red brick patterned with black

St James the Less, Westminster

Vauxhall Bridge Road, London

Photograph and text Jacqueline Banerjee

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Front (with commentary)

Adam and Eve roundels

Ironwork around churchyard

East wall exterior

Main Door

Altar, showing Street's richly detailed east wall

Ironwork by the choir stalls

Ironwork screen to the side of the pulpit

Carved stone pulpit by Thomas Earp

Venetian glass mosaic by G. F. Watts

Stained glass window depicting St James the Less

Column, marble on stone, with parable ("The Sower")

Decorative column with stencilling at the base

Marble font

Wall plaque to Dr James Monk's daughters

Discussion questions

References

Jackson, Neil. "The UnEnglishness of G. E. Street's Church of St. James-the-Less." Architectural History. 23 (1980): 86-94.

Mitchell, Anthony and Olive. Thomas Earp: Eminent Victorian Sculptor. Buckingham: Baron, 2002.

Speel, Bob. "St James the Less, Vauxhall Bridge Road."

Watkins, Philip. The Church and Its History: St James the Less (1994; 8-page pamphlet available at the church).

Weinreb, Ben and Christopher Hibbert, eds. The London Encyclopaedia. London: Macmillan, rev. ed. 1992.

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Last modified 22 January 2008