Church Of St James

The Church of St James is an Anglican church located in the parish of Idridgehay and Alton, built between 1854 and 1855 by H I Stevens of Derby in the Decorated style. The church is constructed of ashlar gritstone on a shallow plinth and features coped gables with cross finials and a graduated slate roof. It consists of a nave, a nave porch, a chancel, a north aisle, and a northeast tower topped with a broach spire and lucarnes.

The exterior includes decorated traceried windows set beneath hoodmoulds with stops, stepped buttresses between the windows, and diagonal buttresses at the corners. A half-timbered porch is located on the southeast wall of the nave, adorned with decorative bargeboards on the gable and 'Y' struts above the pointed entrance archway. The southeast door is framed by a deeply moulded pointed arch. The tower features angle buttresses, with ashlar bands marking the different stages of the tower. The second stage includes pierced quatrefoils, while the bell stage has pointed arched lights with louvres. The church also contains contemporary furnishings.