St James is a Grade II* listed building in the Huntingdonshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 February 1987. A Medieval Church, house.
St James
- WRENN ID
- sacred-rafter-dock
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Huntingdonshire
- Constituency
- Huntingdon MP: Ben Obese-Jecty (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 February 1987
- Type
- Church, house
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- St James, Upwood and the Raveleys
- OS grid reference
- TL 255 799
- Coordinates
- 52.40315, -0.15534
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St James is a former parish church that has been converted into a house. The chancel dates from the mid-13th century, while the nave was built in the late 14th century. It was restored in 1914 and converted into a dwelling around 1980. The building features fieldstone and limestone rubble walls with limestone dressings, and it has plain tiled roofs with an end parapet. The west end of the nave includes a gable bellcote that houses two bells, and the lines of an earlier roof can still be seen.
The layout consists of a nave and chancel. The nave has two-stage diagonal buttressing at the south-west corner and two-stage angle buttressing along the side wall. There are two early 16th-century nave windows, each with two cinquefoil lights and vertical tracery set in a four-centred arch. The doorway features a two-centred arch with continuous moulded orders, while the chancel's south doorway has a square head with stop-chamfered jambs. There is a low side window and another window with two trefoil lights in a square head. The east window of the chancel, dating from the 14th century, has two cinquefoil lights with reticulated tracery in a two-centred arch. The north wall of the nave has two late 14th-century windows, each with two cinquefoil lights and a quatrefoil in a two-centred head, and between these windows is a 14th-century doorway with a two-centred arch of two chamfered orders.
Inside, the chancel arch is from the 14th century, featuring a two-centred design with two chamfered orders, the inner one resting on engaged columns with moulded capitals and bases. There is a piscina in the south wall of the nave with a trefoil two-centred arch. The nave roof, dating from the 19th century, incorporates stop chamfers with nick tiebeams and arch bracing from a roof built around 1600. In the chancel, the piscina has a depressed pointed arch with trefoil and roll moulding at the points.
Local climate
St James sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 98% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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