Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a Grade II listed building constructed between 1861 and 1863 by architects G and J Shaw of Saddleworth. It features rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The church comprises a nave, north porch, north-east tower, south aisle, and chancel. The nave and south aisle have five bays, with a projecting plinth and weathered buttresses, including diagonal ones at the corners. The windows are designed with geometrical tracery, including three-light windows, a five-light window on the east, and a four-light window on the west. The three-stage tower includes a castellated corner stair turret, a projecting plinth, clasping buttresses, a quatrefoil window on the second stage, lancet openings for the belfry, and a prominent broach spire. Inside, the church features a chamfered-arch nave arcade supported by octagonal columns with moulded capitals, arch-braced roof trusses, a carved timber reredos, a pulpit, and stained glass.