Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 June 1987. Church.

Church of St James

WRENN ID
gentle-garret-gold
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
North Yorkshire
Constituency
Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 June 1987
Type
Church
Address
Church of St James, Main Street, Grewelthorpe
OS grid reference
SE 230 763
Coordinates
54.18223, -1.64871
Source
Historic England listing

Also on this page: flood risk · radon risk · weather exposure · detailed attributes ↓

Description

The Church of St James is a late 19th-century church located on Main Street in Grewelthorpe. It is built from coursed squared stone and ashlar, topped with a Welsh slate roof. The church features a nave with a south porch and a north aisle, as well as a chancel with a vestry. The nave consists of four bays and includes a plinth and diagonal offset buttresses at the west end, with additional buttresses between the bays. The west end has a pointed two-light window with reticulated tracery and a hoodmould. The west bay features a gabled porch with a pointed-arched doorway, also with a hoodmould, along with stone coping and a gable cross. The central bays contain cusped lancets, while the east bay has paired lancets. The north aisle mirrors this design. The church has stone coping and an offset gabled bellcote at the west, which houses a bell in a chamfered pointed-arched opening, along with a gable cross on the eastern side. The chancel has a plinth and an offset angle buttress to the east. It consists of one bay with a board priest's door set in a chamfered Caernarvon arched stone surround, and to the right, there are paired cusped lancets. The pointed east window features three lights with a hoodmould and reticulated tracery, along with stone coping and a gable cross. Inside, there is a four-bay arcade with round piers and chamfered pointed arches, and the chancel arch is similar in design.

Local climate

Church of St James receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 64% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 46 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 25 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.

More on this building

Sign in or create a free account to unlock:

  • No EPC on record for this property
  • No sale records on file
  • No related consent applications matched
  • Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
  • Flood risk assessment
  • Radon risk assessment
  • Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Create free account

Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.

Similar buildings

The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.

Nearby listed buildings

  1. The Crown Inn Grade II 51 m
  2. Westfield House Grade II 106 m
  3. Hazel House Grade II 118 m
  4. Hillside Grade II 124 m
  5. Hilltop Farmhouse Grade II 134 m
  6. Raby Cottages Grade II 162 m
  7. Goundry Farmhouse Grade II 371 m
  8. Hackfall Farmhouse Grade II 442 m
  9. Mowbray Castle Grade II 854 m
  10. The Ruin, Mowbray Point Grade II* 928 m