Church of St James is a Grade II* listed building in the Hyndburn local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 March 1984. A Medieval Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- pale-pier-claret
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn MP: Sarah Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 March 1984
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St James, St James' Road, BB5 4JP
- OS grid reference
- SD 741 290
- Coordinates
- 53.7576, -2.39396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James is a Grade II* listed building featuring a late medieval tower, a nave built between 1804 and 1805, and a chancel constructed from 1895 to 1896. The tower is currently undergoing repairs following a fire in 1983. The church is primarily made of coursed sandstone and has a slate roof.
The west tower is embattled and constructed from uncoursed, roughly-hewn blocks. It includes diagonal buttresses on the west side and angle buttresses on the east side, with dripcourses positioned above and below the belfry. The tower has a low rectangular west door with moulded jambs and lintel, along with a hoodmould. There is a three-light Perpendicular window with a gabled hoodmould, and smaller similar openings on three sides of the belfry, with a clock on the fourth side, as well as various small single-light openings.
The nave consists of five bays and is two storeys high, featuring round-headed windows with imposts and keystones, which contain later wooden tracery with ogival heads. The chancel is rock-faced, buttressed, and has three bays with arched and traceried windows.
Inside, there is a three-sided gallery with traceried panels supported by octagonal iron columns that have panelled faces and decorated capitals. At the west end, there are a pair of staircases leading to the gallery. The church has a flat ceiling, two Morris windows depicting the Four Evangelists on the south side, a late-medieval octagonal font with blank shields on its faces, and panelled benches with various carved tracery designs on the ends.
Local climate
Church of St James sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,280 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 94% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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