Church Of Our Lady And St James

The Church of Our Lady and St. James is a church built in 1902 by T. H. and F. Healey of Bradford, with S. J. Cooper as the patron. It features thinly-coursed sandstone and a graduated Westmorland slate roof. The church has a three-bay nave with a south porch, a narrower chancel, and a south tower at the angle with the nave, along with an adjoining vestry on the east side.

The nave includes a porch at bay 1 that has a double-chamfered arch with a floral-stopped hoodmould and gable copings with a cross. There is a string course on the right beneath the windows, which consist of three, two, and one lights, with a buttress between the first two. The west window features a buttress between two sets of three lancets with hoodmoulds and a vesica. The tower has a south priest's door with a string course that rises as a hoodmould, quoined slit windows beneath an offset ashlar belfry stage, which has semi-octagonal corner piers and flanking two-light trefoiled openings with a continuous hoodmould. The tower is topped with a short lead-covered spire that has corner spirelets and a turret at the northeast corner. The gabled south vestry has an ashlar panel with a three-light mullioned window, where the central light is taller, transomed, and cusped. The chancel windows consist of two and one lights, and there is a corbel table beneath the ashlar-coped parapet. The east window features three cusped lights divided by shafts, with the outer lights being blind. Both the east and west gable copings are adorned with crosses.

Inside, the church has a simple Gothic-Revival style with a marble font and wall paintings above the chancel arch. Originally dedicated to St. James, the church is now used by the Roman Catholic community, while the Anglican congregation is accommodated at the Church of St. Thomas and St. James. The adjoining buildings at the east end are not of special interest.