Church of Saint James is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Church.
Church of Saint James
- WRENN ID
- south-soffit-crimson
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North MP: Mrs Elsie Blundell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 12 February 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint James, Tower Street
- OS grid reference
- SD 851 106
- Coordinates
- 53.59216, -2.22579
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint James is a church built in 1838, with a chancel added in 1861. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a slate roof. The church has a nave with galleries on three sides, a central west tower, and a short chancel flanked by vestries to the north and south. The nave consists of seven bays, with a stone plinth, an eaves parapet, a door in the western bay, weathered buttresses, and Y-traceried pointed openings in the other bays. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and has three clock faces, a stone band, two lancet openings at the bell stage, battlements, and plain pinnacles. The one-bay chancel and vestry have traceried windows with dripmoulds, and the east window features five lights with stained glass by Hardman. Inside, the gallery has a panelled parapet, is supported by cast iron columns, and houses the organ on the right side. The roof has massive cranked and cusped trusses adorned with heraldic and stiffleaf bosses.
Local climate
Church of Saint James sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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