Church of St James the Great is a Grade II listed building in the Broxtowe local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St James the Great
- WRENN ID
- pitched-chamber-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broxtowe
- Constituency
- Broxtowe MP: Juliet Campbell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James the Great, Church Lane, Brinsley
- OS grid reference
- SK 461 491
- Coordinates
- 53.03803, -1.31378
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James the Great is a parish church dating to 1837, with a chancel added in 1877. It is constructed of plain and rockfaced ashlar with gabled roofs covered in tile and slate. The building features a partial plinth, crenellated parapets and gables, a coped east gable with a cross, and an ashlar side wall stack. The windows are single lancets with iron lattice glazing.
The church consists of a nave with two west towers, a chancel, a vestry, and a south porch. The west end of the nave has three single lancets, and above them, a blank trefoil. The nave is flanked by single octagonal crenellated towers, each with four chamfered openings. A door is located in the return angle of the north tower. The nave, with four bays, has buttresses and four lancets on each side. The chancel, with two bays, has a lean-to organ chamber to the north, featuring a lancet in its return angle to the east. The east end has two pairs of corner buttresses and three stepped single lancets. On the south side, a buttress supports two lancets. The single-storey vestry, extended in the mid-18th century, has a coped gable. Its buttressed west side features a casement and shouldered door, while the north and east sides each have a casement. The gabled south porch has a pointed south doorway with a traceried overlight, above which is a blank trefoil. An east-facing casement is also present. The inner door has a chamfered Tudor arched head. The aisleless nave has a strutted queen post roof, partly ceiled. A Tudor arched doorway is located on the north side. The chancel features a moulded and rebated arch with a hood mould and stops, supported on round imposts on corbels. A crested wrought iron War Memorial screen dates from 1919. The north side includes a chamfered organ opening and, to its right, a chamfered aumbry with a hood mould. The east end contains an elaborate, 14th-century style War Memorial reredos constructed around 1945. The roof is a principal rafter roof with arch braces.
Notable fittings include a small ashlar font with an octagonal bowl on a traceried stem, covered by a conical wooden cover from 1924. A traceried octagonal wooden pulpit, a timber eagle lectern from 1955, and 19th-century traceried stalls, benches, and desks are also present. Monuments include a brass with a Latin inscription, dated 1874, and a moulded marble and alabaster tablet from 1917.
Local climate
Church of St James the Great 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 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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