Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Wakefield local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. Church.
Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- plain-jade-autumn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wakefield
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James, Church Lane, Crigglestone
- OS grid reference
- SE 319 158
- Coordinates
- 53.63815, -1.5178
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James is a church located on Church Lane in Chapelthorpe, built around 1771. It was destroyed by fire in 1951 and then rebuilt in a facsimile style, reusing the original 18th-century walls and openings. The church is constructed of ashlar stone and features a stone slate roof in a classical style. It has a rectangular nave with a plinth, sill band, and impost band.
The gabled end is symmetrical and has three bays, featuring two original doorways with architraves, pulvinated friezes, consoles, and triangular pediments set within semicircular-arched recesses, with the voussoirs aligned to the courses. The central bay contains a three-light wooden framed window, with a similar design above it, and a quatrefoil set in the apex. The coped gable is topped by an open drum with an ogee cap supported by Tuscan columns.
The east end of the church has a large Venetian window, with the imposts supported by paired engaged Tuscan columns and an open pedimented gable. The left and right returns feature seven bays, with six bays containing semicircular-arched windows with architraves, and the seventh bay projecting forward with pedimented gables. There is also a doorway set in the side wall on the south side.
The interior dates from around 1951, and the east window features stained glass from that period.
Local climate
Church of St James receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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