Church Of St James

The Church of St James is an Anglican church dating from the early 19th century, with remodelling around 1880 and a minor 20th-century extension. It is constructed of rendered and dashed rubble stone with tooled ashlar dressings, coped gables, and a Westmorland slate roof laid in diminishing courses. The church has an elongated cruciform plan, with a bellcote above the west end gallery and north and south transepts. The architectural style is a simplified neo-Romanesque.

The west gable features shallow lancet windows above the gallery, below a bellcote with two bells and a segmentally-pedimented cap. The south side has two- and three-light windows with drip moulds to the semi-circular heads of the lights. A low, gabled 20th-century porch encloses the south door, which has a chamfered ashlar surround to its semi-circular headed doorway. The shallow west transept has a pair of lancets. The chancel has a single lancet to the side wall and a three-light east gable window, with a linking string course at sill level. The north transept is deeper, with a vestry door to the east side wall and a two-light window to the gable. A low gabled wing is located centrally on the side wall, with a wide semi-circular opening to the east wall. A full-height stair wing is on the west end with a blind gable.

Inside, the nave has three bays and a single bay gallery to the west end. There is a two-bay chancel beyond a single crossing bay, with an organ chamber to the south and a vestry to the north. The nave roof is carried on triple purlins supported by king post trusses with curved struts to the centre and angled struts at the ends. Trusses in the crossings and nave have deep arch braces supporting collars beneath diminutive posts. These braces rise from posts at either end of the crossing bay, from which side and transverse braces of different heights extend to support horizontal timbers. The chancel contains late 19th-century choir benches, an altar rail and pulpit, with panelling to the north side wall. Late 19th-century benches are also in the chancel. The west gallery has tiered benching and a panelled front with spindle arcading below the upper rail. Late 18th-century hatchments and commandment boards from an earlier church are on the gallery west wall. A wall monument dedicated to James Bourne of Stalmine Hall, who died in 1841, is located to the east of the south door.