Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Broxbourne local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 November 1983. Church.
Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- rusted-doorway-rowan
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Broxbourne
- Constituency
- Broxbourne MP: Lewis Cocking (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 November 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James, St James Road
- OS grid reference
- TL 328 032
- Coordinates
- 51.71244, -0.07829
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James, located on St James Road in Goff's Oak, was built in 1860 by architects A G Habershon and Pite. This church is constructed from yellow brick with flush stone dressings, featuring steep slate roofs and a red tile steeple. It is designed in the early Gothic style with a cruciform plan and a polygonal apse. The church has lancet windows arranged in ones and twos, topped with oculi, and includes hood moulds with figured and leaf-carved stops. The west end features a triad of windows, and stepped buttresses surround the structure. The porch on the north side has a moulded arch and engaged shafts. Behind the porch is a clock tower with a square lower stage and an octagonal upper part that has slatted bell vents. The interior remains undivided and almost unaltered, showcasing a trussed rafter roof and leaf-carved corbels, along with an octagonal font positioned below the west window.
Local climate
Church of 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 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 58% 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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