Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Tameside local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 February 1986. Church. 4 related planning applications.
Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- former-transept-cedar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Stalybridge and Hyde MP: Jonathan Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 6 February 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James, Huddersfield Road, SK15 3JL
- OS grid reference
- SJ 981 998
- Coordinates
- 53.49532, -2.03005
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James is a Grade II listed building constructed between 1861 and 1863 by architects G and J Shaw of Saddleworth. It features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The church comprises a nave, north porch, north-east tower, south aisle, and chancel. The nave and south aisle have five bays, with a projecting plinth and weathered buttresses, including diagonal ones at the corners. The windows are designed with geometrical tracery, including three-light windows, a five-light window on the east, and a four-light window on the west. The three-stage tower includes a castellated corner stair turret, a projecting plinth, clasping buttresses, a quatrefoil window on the second stage, lancet openings for the belfry, and a prominent broach spire. Inside, the church features a chamfered-arch nave arcade supported by octagonal columns with moulded capitals, arch-braced roof trusses, a carved timber reredos, a pulpit, and stained glass.
Local climate
Church of St James sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 47 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
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