Church of Saint James is a Grade II listed building in the East Riding of Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of Saint James
- WRENN ID
- sombre-span-raven
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Bridlington and The Wolds MP: Charlie Dewhirst (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of Saint James, B1246, Warter
- OS grid reference
- SE 869 504
- Coordinates
- 53.94273, -0.67615
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint James is a church built in 1862 by Habershon and Pite. It is constructed from small ashlar stone and has a plain tile roof. The church features a west tower topped with a broach spire, a 5-bay nave with a south porch, a one-bay chancel with a polygonal apse, and a north vestry. The design reflects a late 13th-century style.
The west tower includes a moulded plinth, angle buttresses with gablets and offsets, and moulded string-courses. It has 2-light belfry openings with tracery in a Geometrical style, which are set under stopped hoodmoulds, as well as 2-light lucarnes. The nave has a pointed window without tracery on the east side, while all other windows feature tracery in the Geometrical style, with hoodmoulds that have foliated stops. The pointed south door is adorned with continuous mouldings and a hoodmould that includes leaf-stops.
The chancel contains 2-light windows with varying tracery in the Geometrical style, also under hoodmoulds with foliated stops. Inside the church, there is a recumbent effigy created by Frampton, commemorating Mrs. Wilson, who died in 1905.
Local climate
Church of Saint James sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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