Church of St James the Great is a Grade II listed building in the Rossendale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 November 1984. Church.
Church of St James the Great
- WRENN ID
- third-footing-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen MP: Andy MacNae (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 November 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James the Great, Bacup Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 832 218
- Coordinates
- 53.69294, -2.25526
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James the Great, built between 1863 and 1865 by Robinson and Stephens, is a Grade II listed building located on Bacup Road in Waterfoot. Constructed from rock-faced sandstone with string courses and a slate roof, the church features a nave oriented on a north-south axis, a south-west steeple, a west aisle, and a chancel, all designed in the 13th-century style.
The three-stage tower includes angle buttresses, a three-light window, clock faces at the top stage, and a broach spire with belfry lucarnes on the cardinal sides. The gable of the nave facing the road has an arched doorway with two orders of moulding and a three-light plate-traceried window above. The nave's side wall, which is buttressed and has four bays, features a gabled porch in the second bay with a steeply pitched roof, a moulded arched doorway with shafts, and plate-traceried two-light windows. The chancel has two bays and a stepped three-light window on the east side.
Inside, the church has a three-bay arcade supported by short columns with moulded caps, a chancel arch with demi-columns, and an arch-braced roof. There is also a baptistery located at the base of the tower.
Local climate
Church of St James the Great sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,200 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 91% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 86% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 56 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 33 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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