Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Amber Valley local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 March 1986. A Victorian Church.
Church of St James
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales MP: John Whitby (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 March 1986
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St James, Wirksworth Road, Idridgehay and Alton
- OS grid reference
- SK 285 490
- Coordinates
- 53.03774, -1.57567
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James is an Anglican church located in the parish of Idridgehay and Alton, built between 1854 and 1855 by H I Stevens of Derby in the Decorated style. The church is constructed of ashlar gritstone on a shallow plinth and features coped gables with cross finials and a graduated slate roof. It consists of a nave, a nave porch, a chancel, a north aisle, and a northeast tower topped with a broach spire and lucarnes.
The exterior includes decorated traceried windows set beneath hoodmoulds with stops, stepped buttresses between the windows, and diagonal buttresses at the corners. A half-timbered porch is located on the southeast wall of the nave, adorned with decorative bargeboards on the gable and 'Y' struts above the pointed entrance archway. The southeast door is framed by a deeply moulded pointed arch. The tower features angle buttresses, with ashlar bands marking the different stages of the tower. The second stage includes pierced quatrefoils, while the bell stage has pointed arched lights with louvres. The church also contains contemporary furnishings.
Local climate
Church of St James receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 40 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 78% 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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