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Principal King-of-Arms and William Camden, Clarencieux Kingof-Arms
: azure, a portcullis or, on a chief of the first, the arms of
King Edward the Confessor, a cross patonzee between five martlets,
four in the cantons of the cross, and one in base, or, between two
roses seeded, or, barbed vert.
THE PARISH OF ST. JAMES,
Which covers an area of 164 acres, was, as already stated, constituted
in the year 1685, the boundaries being set forth in the
Statute 1 Jac. II., cap. 22, sec. 1, and the newly-formed parish
thereby declared to be divided and exempt from the Parish of St.
Martin-in-the-Fields and from all dependencies, offices, charges, and
contributions in respect thereof. Dr. Tenison was named first
Rector of the Parish in the Act.
The parish is bounded on the north by the Parish of St.
Marylebone, on the east by the parishes of St. Anne, Soho, and
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, on the south by the Parish of St. Martin,
and on the west by the Parishes of St. Martin and St. George,
Hanover Square.
The Bounds commence at a House, fonnerly No. 125, Pall Mall,
including the site of the said house, which was the last house on
the South side of the East end of the said Pall Mall Street, and
had an Iron Balcony, as described in the Act of Parliament 1st
James II., cap 22. This house was pulled down in the year 1831,
together with the house adjoining Eastward, No. 13, Cockspur
Street (formerly called Powell's Buildings), and rebuilt as one
house by Mr. Sharpus, a Chinaman. The Boundary line begins
at a point on the North front of the said house, 9 ft. 6 in. eastward
from the centre of the Western Party-wall, or 22 ft. westward
from the obtuse angle of Cockspur Street, and extends from thence
in a North-eastern direction to the middle of the Haymarket; then
Northward up the centre of the Haymarket; then Eastward along
the centre of Coventry Street; then Northward up the centre of
Princes Street and Wardour Street to the centre of Oxford Street;
thus runs Westward along the centre of Oxford Street as far as a