Church Of St James The Great

The Church of St James the Great is a parish church dating to 1837, with a chancel added in 1877. It is constructed of plain and rockfaced ashlar with gabled roofs covered in tile and slate. The building features a partial plinth, crenellated parapets and gables, a coped east gable with a cross, and an ashlar side wall stack. The windows are single lancets with iron lattice glazing.

The church consists of a nave with two west towers, a chancel, a vestry, and a south porch. The west end of the nave has three single lancets, and above them, a blank trefoil. The nave is flanked by single octagonal crenellated towers, each with four chamfered openings. A door is located in the return angle of the north tower. The nave, with four bays, has buttresses and four lancets on each side. The chancel, with two bays, has a lean-to organ chamber to the north, featuring a lancet in its return angle to the east. The east end has two pairs of corner buttresses and three stepped single lancets. On the south side, a buttress supports two lancets. The single-storey vestry, extended in the mid-18th century, has a coped gable. Its buttressed west side features a casement and shouldered door, while the north and east sides each have a casement. The gabled south porch has a pointed south doorway with a traceried overlight, above which is a blank trefoil. An east-facing casement is also present. The inner door has a chamfered Tudor arched head. The aisleless nave has a strutted queen post roof, partly ceiled. A Tudor arched doorway is located on the north side. The chancel features a moulded and rebated arch with a hood mould and stops, supported on round imposts on corbels. A crested wrought iron War Memorial screen dates from 1919. The north side includes a chamfered organ opening and, to its right, a chamfered aumbry with a hood mould. The east end contains an elaborate, 14th-century style War Memorial reredos constructed around 1945. The roof is a principal rafter roof with arch braces.

Notable fittings include a small ashlar font with an octagonal bowl on a traceried stem, covered by a conical wooden cover from 1924. A traceried octagonal wooden pulpit, a timber eagle lectern from 1955, and 19th-century traceried stalls, benches, and desks are also present. Monuments include a brass with a Latin inscription, dated 1874, and a moulded marble and alabaster tablet from 1917.