Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a church built between 1863 and 1865 by George Shaw of Uppermill. It is constructed from course squared rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features slate roofs with stone-coped gables and finials. The church is designed in the Decorated style and includes buttresses and diagonal buttresses. Its layout consists of a chancel with a vestry, a north transept with an organ chamber and vestry, a south transept, a south porch, and twin west spires.

The chancel has a three-light east window and smaller windows on the sides. The north transept features cusped lancets and a triangular window above three lancets at the north end, with additional lancets on the sides. There is a gabled porch and door to the west. The nave has two-light windows on its sides, while the double-gabled south transept includes a four-light window and a lancet to the south. A small gabled south porch is also present, along with a five-light west window. The church is notable for its unusual pair of spires at the western corners of the nave, which are square at the lowest stage, transitioning to a receding ashlar broach stage, then becoming an octagonal tower with a gableted bell stage and a stone spire above.

Inside, the chancel's east side windows feature stained glass, and the chancel includes carved communion rails. The chancel roof has arch-braces to collars that rise from stone corbels, with curved and scissor braces supporting two tiers of purlins. There is a richly carved pulpit and a resited font. The nave has a hammer-beam roof with arch-braces to collars and curved struts above, along with stained glass in the nave windows and a set of pews. A memorial tablet is displayed in a carved and canopied frame. This church is distinguished by its small twin west spires and retains many fine fittings.