Church of St James | |
Denomination: | Church of England |
Tower Height: | 119 feet (36 metres) |
Parish: | Chipping Campden |
Diocese: | Gloucester |
Province: | Canterbury |
Coordinates: | 52.0533°N -1.7758°W |
Heritage Designation: | Grade I listed building |
Pushpin Map: | Gloucestershire |
The Anglican Church of St James at Chipping Campden in the Cotswold District of Gloucestershire, England was built in the 15th century incorporating an earlier Norman church. It is a grade I listed building.[1]
The early perpendicular Cotswold wool church,[2] was built in the 15th century but included elements of the Norman church which had been on the site since 1180.[3]
The parish is part of the Vale and Cotswold Edge benefice within the Diocese of Gloucester.[4]
The building consists of a five-bay nave, three-bay chancel, two aisles and a five-stage west tower.[1] The tower is 119 feet (36 metres) high to the top of the pinnacles.[5]
The interior includes medieval altar frontals (c.1500), cope (c.1400) and 17th-century monuments includes a monument to silk merchant Sir Baptist Hicks and his family. The includes a plaque to William Grevel, described as "the flower of the wool merchants of all England".[6]