Church of St Phillip and St James is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 December 1960. Church.

Church of St Phillip and St James

WRENN ID
woven-barrel-rush
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Chippenham MP: Sarah Gibson (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 December 1960
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Phillip and St James, Church Rise, Corsham
OS grid reference
ST 860 681
Coordinates
51.41254, -2.20158
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Philip and St James is an Anglican parish church built in 1866 by J.H. Hakewill. It features coursed rubble walls and stone tiled roofs, with coped gables at the east and west ends, and an ashlar gabled bellcote at the west. The church has an aisleless nave and chancel, a south porch, and a north-east vestry. Designed in the Early Decorated Gothic style, it includes windows with Geometrical tracery, moulded eaves, and a moulded course beneath the windows.

The nave has four bays with clasping buttresses at the west end. On the north side, there are four 2-light windows separated by buttresses, while the south side has a single 2-light window. The gabled porch features a moulded pointed arch, along with a 3-light and a 2-light window, all equipped with hoodmoulds and head stops. The west end is defined by a pair of central buttresses framing a long 2-light window, which is topped by a pointed arch under the bellcote. A heavy buttress is located on the south side between the nave and chancel.

The chancel includes side lancet windows, with three on the south side, one on the north, and a 3-light window at the east. There is a string course that is slightly higher than that of the nave, stepping up beneath the east window, along with clasping buttresses at the east.

Inside, the broad nave features an elaborate tie-beam roof. The chancel arch is marked by pierced arched braces that spring from short wall shafts to the tie-beam. Stained glass is present only in the chancel, with the east window dating from around 1866 and the lancets being slightly later. The church also contains a stone font and pulpit.

Local climate

Church of St Phillip and St James receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 60% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 56% 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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