Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a Grade II* listed building, constructed between 1774 and 1775 by C. Bisbrowne, with the chancel added in 1900 by H. Havelock Sutton. It is built of brick with stone dressings. The nave features five bays and two tiers of windows, with sill bands and a cornice topped by a stone-coped brick parapet. The round-headed windows have flat architraves and impost blocks, although the western windows were blocked in 1984. The four-stage tower includes sill bands, a cornice, and an embattled brick parapet, with round-headed windows. The third stage has a three-faced clock above the windows, and the top stage has paired louvred bell openings. The west entrance is framed by a stucco flat architrave with a decorated frieze and a consoled cornice, which is now damaged as of 1984. Flanking porches were likely added around 1900. The chancel contains an organ chamber to the north and a vestry under lean-to roofs, featuring triple round-headed lights and an east window with round tracery.

Inside, there is a gallery on three sides supported by slender quatrefoil columns. The arch-braced collar roof includes pendants and wall piers with some corbel heads. The round chancel arch leads to a barrel vaulted chancel, and there is a round-arched opening to the organ chamber. The east window has stained glass by H. Holiday from 1881, while other windows are mostly broken, with the lower halves of some fitted with 20th-century louvres as of 1984. The church also contains several wall tablets dating from the 1790s to the 1840s and is said to have a 18th-century iron sword rest. Notably, the cast iron columns supporting the galleries are the earliest remaining example in Liverpool and one of the earliest examples in the country.