Venue Type & Location
Church
Site Name: St James Church
Location: Poole
County: Dorset
Location Type: Town - in town at determined location
Overview
Church St and Thames St,Poole, approx 100 m N of Poole Quay.
Nothing is known about the earlier church
Performance History
Performance venue
Current Status
In use as parish church
History of the Venue
First mentioned in 1142 as chapel of St James
1819-20 totally demolished and rebuilt, on the site of the earlier church
Record Source
REED Dorset/Cornw, p 241
Patrons who owned this venue
[No data found.]
Bibliographic Sources
- Cullingford, Cecil N. A History of Poole and Neighbourhood. Chichester: Phillimore, 1988
- Hutchins, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset. 1773. 4 vols. Westminster: J.B. Nichols & Sons, 1861--73
- Hutchins, John. The History of Poole. Poole: 1788
- Page, William, ed. The Victoria History of the County of Dorset. 2 vols. London: Archibald Constable & Co., 1908
- Perkins, Thomas. Memorials of Old Dorset. London: Bemrose & Sons, 1907
- Pitfield, F.P. Dorset Parish Churches. Sherborne: Dorset Publishing, 1981
- Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England. An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Dorset. 5 vols. London: Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, 1952
- Sydenham, John. The History of the Town and County of Poole. London: Whittaker & Co., 1839