Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the West Lancashire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 August 1988. Church.
Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- half-render-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire MP: Ashley Dalton (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 August 1988
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James, Church Lane, Wrightington
- OS grid reference
- SD 526 136
- Coordinates
- 53.61694, -2.71744
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James is a church built in 1857 by E.G. Paley. It is constructed from snecked sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The building includes a nave, a south aisle with a porch, and a lower chancel. The west wall has a wheel window and a gabled bellcote. The north wall of the nave consists of four bays, each with paired lancet windows separated by buttresses. The south aisle has three bays to the east of the porch, which also have similar windows. The outer porch doorway is chamfered in two orders. The chancel has two lancet windows on the south side and triple stepped lancets at the east end. Inside, there is a four-bay arcade of pointed arches, chamfered in two orders, supported by alternate round and octagonal piers, and an open timber roof.
Local climate
Church of St James sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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