St James' Church, Thornhill Road, Falkirk is a Grade B listed building in the Falkirk local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 8 February 1995. Church. 5 related planning applications.
St James' Church, Thornhill Road, Falkirk
- WRENN ID
- mired-keep-wagtail
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- Falkirk
- Constituency
- Falkirk MP: Euan Stainbank (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 8 February 1995
- Type
- Church
- Address
- St James' Church, Thornhill Road, Falkirk, FK2 7AZ
- OS grid reference
- NS 892 805
- Coordinates
- 56.00543, -3.77691
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
St James' Church is a late 19th century Gothic church located on a corner site on Thornhill Road in Falkirk. It features a main gabled front facing the street, with a large traceried giant nave window and porches on either side—one leading to the steeple and the other connecting to the hall. The church is constructed of rock-faced red ashlar with dressed detailing and has slated roofs, including a thin slated spire set within a steeple parapet. The hall also has a gabled front facing the street and includes a disabled access ramp made of red engineering brick.
Inside, the church has a T-plan arrangement, with sculptural main capitals and corbels, and an open timber main roof. An organ is located in one transept, and there is a low timber-built pulpit. A notable feature is the impressive leaded glass window from around 1970 in the liturgical east gable. The boundary walls are also made of rock-faced red ashlar and are topped with iron railings.
Local climate
St James' Church, Thornhill Road, Falkirk sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% 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 52 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 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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