Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a parish church located in Canon Frome. The west tower was built in 1680, while the rest of the church was rebuilt in 1860 by architect G F Bodley. The west tower is constructed of red brick in English bond, featuring a sandstone plinth and ashlar dressings. The remainder of the church is made of dressed and squared sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, topped with slate roofs.

The west tower has three stages, with three string courses and a parapet that includes a moulded cornice. It is capped by a pyramidal roof with a weathervane and features semi-circular headed lancet vents with transoms at the belfry stage. The nave consists of two bays with raised verges, a semi-circular headed lancet window to the left, and a 3-light window with a quatrefoil in the central roundel and a moulded label to the right of a gabled porch. The porch has a pointed arch-headed entrance with two chamfered orders and a label decorated with zig-zag enrichment. The chancel has two bays with a raised verge, and to the right of the forward projecting gable of the organ chamber, there is a single lancet window and a loop in the gable, along with a doorway featuring a shouldered arched head and an octagonal shaft to the chimney.

Inside, the church has a trussed rafter roof and a two-bay arcade in the north aisle, which includes a central clustered pier and arches of two orders: the outer is chamfered, and the inner is moulded. The rectangular plan responds have moulded bases and capitals, and there is blind arcading on the north and east walls of the north aisle, along with a rose window in the east wall that contains good stained glass. The chancel also features a trussed rafter roof, ceiled in the eastern bay, and a chancel arch of two orders, with the outer being chamfered and the inner moulded, dying into a decorative corbel. This church is noted as one of G F Bodley's earliest commissions.