Church of St James the Great is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 May 2000. Church.
Church of St James the Great
- WRENN ID
- far-hinge-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Richmond and Northallerton MP: Rishi Sunak (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 May 2000
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St James the Great, Ainderby Road, Romanby
- OS grid reference
- SE 360 932
- Coordinates
- 54.33315, -1.44737
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St James the Great is a parish church built between 1880 and 1882, designed by Charles Hodgson Fowler. It is constructed from coursed dressed stone with ashlar dressings and features plain tile roofs. The building has a chamfered plinth, a moulded cill band, and ashlar coped gables, with the chancel and nave covered by a single roof.
The west front includes a single three-light pointed arch window with panel tracery and a moulded hood. On the south front, the chancel has two flat-headed two-light windows with panel tracery, while the nave features a single three-light window and a two-light window with flat heads and simple cusped tracery. To the left, there is a projecting gabled porch with a chamfered and moulded outer arched doorway, accessible by four steps. The east front has a single three-light pointed arch window, and the north front contains three flat-headed two-light windows with cusped tracery in the nave. The chancel is partially obscured by a projecting lean-to vestry, which has a two-light west window and a tall chamfered stone chimney stack. Between the nave and chancel, there is an octagonal wooden cupola or bellcote with a slate-hung base and an octagonal spire.
Inside, the church features a double chamfered stone chancel arch, an open wooden roof with arched braces and collars, and a boarded roof in the chancel. The interior includes a stone altar with a painted wooden reredos, wooden choir stalls, an altar rail, a pulpit, and pews. There is also a moulded octagonal stone font.
Local climate
Church of St James the Great receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 74% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 44 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 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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