Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a Grade II* listed building featuring a late medieval tower, a nave built between 1804 and 1805, and a chancel constructed from 1895 to 1896. The tower is currently undergoing repairs following a fire in 1983. The church is primarily made of coursed sandstone and has a slate roof.

The west tower is embattled and constructed from uncoursed, roughly-hewn blocks. It includes diagonal buttresses on the west side and angle buttresses on the east side, with dripcourses positioned above and below the belfry. The tower has a low rectangular west door with moulded jambs and lintel, along with a hoodmould. There is a three-light Perpendicular window with a gabled hoodmould, and smaller similar openings on three sides of the belfry, with a clock on the fourth side, as well as various small single-light openings.

The nave consists of five bays and is two storeys high, featuring round-headed windows with imposts and keystones, which contain later wooden tracery with ogival heads. The chancel is rock-faced, buttressed, and has three bays with arched and traceried windows.

Inside, there is a three-sided gallery with traceried panels supported by octagonal iron columns that have panelled faces and decorated capitals. At the west end, there are a pair of staircases leading to the gallery. The church has a flat ceiling, two Morris windows depicting the Four Evangelists on the south side, a late-medieval octagonal font with blank shields on its faces, and panelled benches with various carved tracery designs on the ends.