Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a Grade II listed church built in 1847 by J. Clarke for the Church Commissioners. It is constructed from snecked stone and features a slate roof. The church has a nave with a clerestory and aisles, a south-west tower, and a chancel with a vestry and organ chamber, all designed in the Gothic revival style. The nave and aisles consist of five bays, each with a projecting plinth and weathered buttresses. Each bay contains a 2-light aisle window with plate tracery, along with paired lancet clerestory windows. The three-stage tower features lancet openings, an octagonal stair turret, clasping buttresses, paired belfry openings, and a broach spire topped with gabled lucarnes and a crocket finial. The east and west ends have three lancet windows each. Inside, the church has alternating circular and octagonal columns in the nave arcade, with naturalistic carvings on the capitals. There is a wall painting above the moulded chancel arch, scissor-braced roof trusses, and various timber and stone fittings, including pews, a font, a pulpit, and a chancel screen.