Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the High Peak local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 April 1984. Church.

Church of St James

WRENN ID
fading-oriel-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
High Peak
Constituency
High Peak MP: Jon Pearce (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 April 1984
Type
Church
Address
Church of St James, New Road, Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
OS grid reference
SK 021 821
Coordinates
53.33643, -1.96911
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St James is a church built around 1874, designed by architect J Lowe. It is constructed from gritstone rubble with quoins and features ashlar gritstone dressings. The slate roof is adorned with fish-scale banding and a terracotta ridge, while the gables are stone-coped with kneelers. A coped bellcote is located at the west end. The building is a single cell with a polygonal apse at the east. There are north and south vestries that function as transepts on the exterior.

On the south elevation, there are three pairs of twin lancet windows with leaded lights, each supported by a buttress on the west side. The west side features a glazed wooden gabled porch decorated with cusped details and cusped windows on the sides. The east vestry includes two-light flush mullion windows with arched lights, while the polygonal apse has lancet windows on the sides and an east window with geometric tracery. The north elevation closely resembles the south but lacks the porch.

Inside, the church contains contemporary pews, a font, and other fittings, along with a scissor truss roof. The central south window features abstract stained glass designed in 1962 by T Cocke.

Local climate

Church of St James sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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