---
title: "St James, Southam"
description: "Located in Southam, Warwickshire. Built Fourteenth century, with 15th-, early 16th- and 19th-century work. Diocese of Coventry. Grade I. Decorated and Perpendicular style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","Church of England","Warwickshire","Southam","Grade I","Decorated","Perpendicular"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/southam-st-james"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:42:43.969Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-07T20:33:30.749Z"
location: "Southam, Warwickshire"
country: "England"
county: "Warwickshire"
town: "Southam"
address: "Coventry Streey, Southam, Warwickshire, CV47 0EA"
postcode: "CV47 0EA"
built: "Fourteenth century, with 15th-, early 16th- and 19th-century work"
denomination: "Church of England"
dedications: ["James"]
diocese: "Coventry"
grade: "I"
style: "Decorated and Perpendicular"
materials: "Squared coursed lias with sandstone dressings; sandstone ashlar clerestory and spire; fish-scale tile and lead roofs"
website: "https://stjames-southam.co.uk/"
openingHours: "Please contact the church office if you would like to look around the church."
parish: "Southam St James"
listEntryUrl: "https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1185823"
gridReference: "SP 417 617"
accessNotes: "Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church. Ramp or level access available on request"
---

# St James, Southam

St James’s is a Grade I parish church in the centre of Southam, Warwickshire, a fourteenth-century town church with a west tower and octagonal broach spire in the Diocese of Coventry.

## Overview

Historic England records a church of the fourteenth century with fifteenth-, early sixteenth- and nineteenth-century alterations. The chancel, nave and tower are squared coursed lias with sandstone dressings; the clerestory and spire are sandstone ashlar. The chancel roof and porches have fish-scale tiles; the nave roof is lead. The plan is a chancel with north aisle, nave with north and south aisles, and a three-stage west tower. The chancel is of fourteenth-century origin, rebuilt in the fifteenth century; the nave aisles were widened in the fifteenth century and an early sixteenth-century clerestory of eight windows was added. The fifteenth-century octagonal broach spire has pinnacles on the broaches and two tiers of lucarnes.

Inside, the listing notes a fourteenth-century rood-loft doorway, a fifteenth-century chancel arch, a four-bay nave arcade, an early sixteenth-century nave roof with carved bosses, fragments of medieval wall painting, a seventeenth-century polygonal pulpit, and a chest dated 1620. Visit Southam records a papal dispensation of 16 July 1359 as the first documented dedication, and the removal of pews with a new York stone floor in 2004.

## Further Information

- [Historic England list entry 1185823](https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1185823)
- [British Listed Buildings: Church of St James, Southam](https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101185823-church-of-st-james-southam)
- [St James, Southam](https://stjames-southam.co.uk/)