Church of Saint James the Apostle is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 June 1966. Church. 3 related planning applications.

Church of Saint James the Apostle

WRENN ID
grey-stone-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 June 1966
Type
Church
Address
Church of Saint James the Apostle, Ramsden Road, OL12 9NX
OS grid reference
SD 912 170
Coordinates
53.64978, -2.13388
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of Saint James the Apostle is a Grade II listed building constructed in 1856 by G. Shaw. It is built from tooled ashlar and features a slate roof. The church comprises a nave with a clerestory, an aisle, and a south-west tower located south of the aisles and the west door. The chancel includes a north organ chamber and a vestry. The nave and aisle have five bays, with triple-lancet clerestory windows and small coupled-lancet windows in the aisles. Notable architectural details include a stone plinth, continuous sill, hood-moulds, and weathered buttresses. The chancel has three bays, angled buttresses, a three-lancet east window, and a vestry with a pinnacle-like chimney. The roof is steeply pitched with coped gables. The four-stage tower features angled buttresses, banding on the arched south door, lancet openings on each stage, and a broach spire with gableted spire-lights. Inside, the chamfered nave arcade is supported by circular columns with moulded capitals, and the roofs are adorned with arch-braced trusses.

Local climate

Church of Saint James the Apostle sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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