Church of St James is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 8 September 2000. Church.

Church of St James

WRENN ID
spare-finial-pigeon
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
8 September 2000
Type
Church
Address
Church of St James, Devauden Green, Chepstow, Devauden
OS grid reference
ST 483 991
Coordinates
51.68847, -2.74841
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St James is a 19th-century building constructed of random sandstone rubble and topped with Welsh slate roofs. It is a single-cell structure oriented from northwest to southeast, featuring an entrance on the east side and an altar on the west. The church includes a chancel apse and a gabled entrance porch.

On the south elevation, there are four two-light windows with leaded lattices and pointed lights, along with strip buttresses at either end. To the left is a half-octagon chancel, and to the right is the gabled porch. The roof is plain and gabled, with a small bellcote located at the right (eastern) end, supported by modillion brackets and housing a single small bell. The rear wall is blind and constructed of rougher stone. The entrance features a gabled porch with a pointed head door and a circular light above it, adorned with trefoil tracery.

The interior details were not available at the time of resurvey.

Local climate

Church of St James receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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