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The Church of St. James the Less is a historic Episcopal church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, that was architecturally influential. As St. James-the-Less Episcopal Church , it was designated a National Historic Landmark [ 2 ] for its Gothic Revival architecture , which influenced a generation of subsequent churches.
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Stubbings House mansion was very briefly the home of Guy Carleton, 1st Baron Dorchester, the Governor of Quebec and later, during World War II, of Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands. Another notable resident from 1947 to 1969 was physicist Sir Thomas Merton inventor of the "one-shilling rangefinder" which brought down flying bombs at a range ...
St James the Less' Church, Ashted, Birmingham; St James the Less and St Helen Church, Colchester, Essex; Church of St James the Less, Hadleigh, Essex; Church of St James the Less, Hambridge, Somerset; St James the Less Church, Lancing, West Sussex; Church of St James the Less, Longton, Staffordshire; Saint James the Less, Pockthorpe, Norfolk
Catholic Encyclopedia: Saint James the Less, identifying the Apostle James with James, brother of Jesus (James the Just) St. James the Less, Apostle at the Christian Iconography web site; Here Followeth of James the Less from Caxton's translation of the Golden Legend; James the Less: The Latter Rain Page Archived 14 March 2008 at the Wayback ...
St James the Less Church is the Anglican parish church of Lancing, an ancient village which has been absorbed into the modern town of Lancing in the district of Adur, one of seven local government districts in the English county of West Sussex. It was founded in the 12th century in the most northerly of the three settlements in Lancing parish ...
The parish was dissolved around 1986, and the former St. James Church was sold to an evangelical church. Most regrettably, the church has been stripped of its windows, altars, marble communion rail, pipe organ, and other artifacts, and the church has been whitewashed, destroying its beautiful and historic murals.
In 1698, St. James' Parish opened the first parochial lending library of the American parishes of the Church of England. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Bray donated 118 books for the library that year. The Reverend Henry Hall was called as the first rector, and remained at St. James' until his death in 1722. When the old church became inadequate for the ...