Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Stockton-on-Tees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 November 1967. Church.
Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- sheer-column-sage
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Constituency
- Stockton North MP: Chris McDonald (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James, Wynyard Road, Grindon and Thorpe Thewles
- OS grid reference
- NZ 402 235
- Coordinates
- 54.60517, -1.37911
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James, built in 1887, is a small, aisleless, two-cell church featuring two bays and a south porch. It is constructed from coursed stone and has a tiled roof, designed in the early English style. The church includes lancet windows that are set under drip moulds and has a bracketed eaves cornice. The porch is adorned with impost moulding and one order of nook shafts. At the west end, there is a small octagonal bell turret topped with a spirelet. Inside, there is a Londonderry hatchment located on the north nave wall.
Local climate
Church of St James sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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