The Cotswold Guide
A view of St James's Church
Church · Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire

St James's Church

Tall and luminous, built on wool money. The 15th-century brasses are among the finest in the country.

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Tall and luminous, built on wool money. The 15th-century brasses are among the finest in the country.

In Chipping Campden

An unbroken curve of honey-stone houses on a single high street, and the official starting point of the Cotswold Way.

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Gallery

  • St James's Church, Chipping Campden — tower and nave seen across the churchyard from the approach path
  • Looking up at the tall Perpendicular tower of St James's — twin belfry openings, traceried windows and crenellated parapet
  • The yew-lined avenue leading to the church door, with low evening light along the path
  • Close-up of one of St James's stone-arched doorways with its weathered wooden door beneath
  • Looking down the long nave at St James's — Perpendicular arcades and a flat panelled ceiling
  • Stone vaulting above a side window at St James's, with a five-light Perpendicular window beneath
  • Detail of the Hicks family tomb monument at St James's — black marble columns, painted heraldry and a carved cherub
  • Close-up of the marble effigy of a Hicks family member — Elizabethan ruff and ornately carved costume detail
  • A medieval stained-glass window in a side chapel at St James's, with leaded panels of saints and heraldic shields

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