Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the East Cambridgeshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 June 1984. Church.

Church of St James

WRENN ID
guardian-panel-owl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
East Cambridgeshire
Constituency
Ely and East Cambridgeshire MP: Charlotte Cane (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 June 1984
Type
Church
Address
Church of St James, High Street, Lode
OS grid reference
TL 533 626
Coordinates
52.24109, 0.24525
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St James is a parish church consisting of a nave and chancel, built in 1853 by the architect Rhode Hawkins. The Fairhaven chapel was added around 1950. The church is constructed from coursed clunch with limestone dressings and features a tiled roof, which includes a gabled bell-cote at the west end. The south side of the nave has four bays, one containing a lancet window and two featuring two-light windows with traceried heads. There is an open-sided south porch made of wood, set on a clunch base with a stone sill. The chancel is highlighted by an east window with three lights and a foiled head.

Local climate

Church of St James sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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