The Parish Church of St James is a Grade II* listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1959. Church.
The Parish Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- high-portal-alder
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Constituency
- Arundel and South Downs MP: Andrew Griffith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- The Parish Church of St James, the Street, Heyshott, Chichester
- OS grid reference
- SU 897 181
- Coordinates
- 50.95564, -0.72387
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St James is a Grade II* listed parish church located in Heyshott. It served as a chapel of ease to Stedham until 1882. The nave dates back to the 13th century, while the rest of the church was rebuilt in the 19th century. The structure is made of rubble with tiled roofs, featuring a weatherboarded turret and a shingled spire. The church includes a chancel with a north vestry, a nave with a north aisle, a south porch, and a weatherboarded bell-turret at the west end of the eave, topped with a broached shingled spire.
Local climate
The Parish Church of St James receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 62% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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