Church Of St James

The Church of St. James is a church built between 1854 and 1856 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. It is constructed from snecked stone with ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The church has a four-bay nave with aisles that have lean-to roofs, along with north and south transepts, a chancel with a northeast tower, a south chapel, and a vestry. The aisles are adorned with paired cusped lights situated between weathered buttresses. The western porches are gabled and feature entrances with two orders and round windows. The clerestory includes traceried triangular windows.

The west end of the church has gabled buttresses, a west door with two orders, three cusped lancets, and top round windows. The transepts also have gabled buttresses, three cusped lancets, and a rose window on both the north and south sides. The chancel has a canted end, a Lombard frieze, and corbelled angle shafts, with two-light windows. The tower features gabled angle buttresses, a cusped pointed east entrance, and blind arcading to the north. The second stage of the tower has traceried lancets, while the third stage has paired trefoil-headed lights. The fourth stage includes nook shafts and two-light louvred bell openings, topped with a cornice decorated with ball flowers. The broach spire has two tiers of lucarnes, although the lower tier has been removed, and there are niches over the broaches.

The south chapel features a diagonal buttress and two-light windows. The vestry, which extends to the south, was added in 1923 and has straight-headed windows with cusped lights. Inside, the nave has arcades of five bays supported by round columns. The chancel arch is also supported by columns with foliate capitals. There is a low iron chancel screen and an octagonal timber pulpit with figures, dating from 1912. An arch leads to the north organ loft, and there is a two-bay arcade leading to the south chapel. The east end has wall paintings from 1899 by A.D. Hemming, featuring canopied figures and angels, with a painted ceiling. A painted reredos from 1891, also by A.D. Hemming, is present. The south chapel includes a reredos and parclose screen from 1938 by B.A. Miller, along with some notable 19th-century stained glass in the north and east windows.