Chapel of St James and St Christopher is a Grade II listed building in the Coventry local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1955. Chapel.
Chapel of St James and St Christopher
- WRENN ID
- leaning-iron-finch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Coventry
- Constituency
- Coventry North West MP: Taiwo Owatemi (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1955
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Chapel of St James and St Christopher, Spon Street
- OS grid reference
- SP 324 790
- Coordinates
- 52.40834, -1.5247
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Chapel of St James and St Christopher is a disused 15th-century chapel that was associated with the weavers, likely serving as a craft chapel. It is constructed of sandstone and features a pointed entrance arch, angle buttresses, and remnants of aisle arcades. There are also blocked pointed arched windows present. The chapel is part of a group of listed buildings along Spon Street.
Local climate
Chapel of St James and St Christopher receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 70% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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