Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Wokingham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1967. Church.

Church of St James

WRENN ID
former-wattle-kestrel
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wokingham
Constituency
Wokingham MP: Clive Jones (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 January 1967
Type
Church
Address
Church of St James, Church Lane, Barkham
OS grid reference
SU 784 664
Coordinates
51.3915, -0.87451
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St James is a parish church built in 1862 by John B. Clacy and son, designed in the Early English style on an ancient site. The chancel and transepts were added in 1887. The church is constructed of flint with Bath stone dressings and features a tiled, coped, gabled roof. Its layout includes a chancel, north and south transepts, a north vestry, and a nave with a south tower. The tower is divided into three stages; the lower stage has set-back buttresses and functions as a porch, while the upper stage is made of wood and topped with a small octagonal shingled spire. The windows are pointed and trefoiled.

Inside, the nave consists of five bays supported by arch braced collar trusses adorned with nailhead ornament. There are several 18th-century memorial slabs set into the floor. The font is made of stone and dates from the late 18th century. In a recess on the east wall of the porch, there is a late 13th-century oak effigy of a lady dressed in a long loose gown and linen head-dress, although both hands are missing and the face is damaged.

Local climate

Church of St James sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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