Church of St James is a Grade II* listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. A C19 Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St James
- WRENN ID
- tall-hearth-tide
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Chesham and Amersham MP: Sarah Green (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James, Oxford Road, Gerrards Cross, SL9 7DJ
- OS grid reference
- TQ 000 879
- Coordinates
- 51.5813, -0.55681
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James is a parish church built in 1859, designed by architect Sir William Tite. It features a combination of white and yellow brick with red brick diapering, and has a Welsh slate roof. The church has a cruciform plan and is topped with an octagonal dome, which is surrounded by four square turrets that have concave conical roofs. There is also a campanile located at the north-west corner of the building.
Local climate
Church of St James sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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