Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a parish church dating to 1842, designed by W Hurst and W B Moffatt of Doncaster. A chancel and vestry were added in 1910. The church is constructed from grey brick with sandstone ashlar dressings and a slate roof to the earlier section, and red brick with limestone ashlar dressings and a plain tile roof to the additions. It is built in the Gothic Revival style.

The church comprises a west tower, a four-bay nave, a three-bay chancel with a south chapel, a north organ chamber, and a vestry adjoining the north side. The tower has a chamfered ashlar plinth and features north and south doors with triple-chamfered openings and carved angel stops. The west side has a lancet window with headstops, and clock faces are set in cusped ashlar surrounds. Above the lancet is a weathered string course leading to the belfry with triple lancet openings beneath a corbel table. The octagonal broach spire is topped with a finial and weather vane. The nave displays buttresses, a sill string course, triple stepped lancets with headstops, and coped gables with carved kneelers. The chancel has flush ashlar bands at sill and impost levels, pointed and square-headed windows, and a pointed 5-light east window. The interior of the tower contains a pointed chamfered door to the nave, a moulded plaster cornice and ceiling, and a commemorative board detailing the 1842 rebuilding. The wide nave, open to the chancel, organ chamber, and south chapel, features a west gallery with Gothic-panelled fronts carried on cast-iron columns, and a pointed double-chamfered tower arch. A complete set of box pews remains, incorporating pedestals of former cast-iron columns. The roof has eight bays with queen struts and cusped panels, ceiled over at collar level. The chancel has pointed moulded arches to the north and south, leading to piers and responds, and a cinquefoiled piscina with carved spandrels. The chancel roof is arch-braced with painted inscriptions and decoration. Other features include a 19th-century octagonal font, an octagonal wooden pulpit with traceried panels, and a marble wall tablet to Ann Peacock (1801) and a marble bust of Ralph Creyke (1859).