Church of St James
Church of St James is a church in Avebury, Wiltshire, England. Church of St James is situated nearby to Alexander Keiller Museum, as well as near Avebury Post Office.Photo: Loz Pycock, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Anglican
- Description: church in Avebury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Avebury church”, “Avebury St James”, and “Avebury St. James Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Avebury and Alexander Keiller Museum.
Avebury
Nature reserve
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.
Alexander Keiller Museum
Museum
Photo: Chris Talbot, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Avebury is a Neolithic henge monument containing three stone circles, around the village of Avebury in Wiltshire, in south-west England. One of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain, it contains the largest megalithic stone circle in the world.
Avebury Manor and Garden
Historic building
Photo: JürgenMatern, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Avebury Manor & Garden is a National Trust property consisting of a Grade I listed early-16th-century manor house and its surrounding garden. It is in Avebury, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, England, in the centre of the village next to St James's Church and close to the Avebury neolithic henge monument.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Winterbourne Monkton and Berwick Bassett.
Winterbourne Monkton
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Winterbourne Monkton is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 1 mile north of Avebury Stone Circle and 6 miles northwest of Marlborough. The village lies immediately west of the A4361 road between Swindon and Devizes.
Berwick Bassett
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Berwick Bassett is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles northwest of Marlborough and 8 miles southwest of Swindon. The village is on the west bank of a headstream of the River Kennet and close to the A4361 road, formerly the A361, which links Devizes and Avebury with Wroughton and Swindon. Berwick Bassett is situated 2 miles north of Church of St James.
Yatesbury
Village
Photo: Brian Robert Marshall, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yatesbury is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Cherhill, in Wiltshire, England. It is in the northeast of Cherhill parish, 1 mile north of the A4 road approximately 4 miles east of Calne and 9 miles west of Marlborough. Yatesbury is situated 2½ miles northwest of Church of St James.
Church of St James
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Avebury, Wiltshire, West Country, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.4286° or 51° 25′ 43″ northLongitude
-1.85789° or 1° 51′ 28″ westOpen location code
9C3WC4HR+CROpenStreetMap ID
way 154471674OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=anglicanWikidata ID
Q17529602
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