Roman Catholic Church Of St Michael And St James

The Roman Catholic Church of St. Michael and St. James is a church built mainly between 1901 and 1902 by Edmund Kirby, with the chancel dating from 1885. It is constructed of ashlar stone and features a plain tile roof with crested ridge tiles. The church has a cruciform shape, consisting of a three-bay nave with a south porch, a two-bay chancel, and single-bay transepts.

The nave is distinguished by a group of three graded lancet windows on the west side, each accompanied by a trefoil-headed window below. Pilaster buttresses flank each window, while the north and south sides have three trefoil-headed lights. The gabled north porch has a king-post roof with diagonal braces, and inside, double half-glazed doors in a wooden screen lead to a segmental pointed doorway with two massive half-roll orders. The transepts feature east and west windows similar to those in the nave, a transomed north window, and a square-headed south door with a roll-moulded surround.

The chancel has three lancet windows on the east side under a common hood mould, a three-light window on the south, and two-light and single-light windows on the north, all with trefoiled heads. Inside, the pointed chancel arch is flanked by two pointed niches containing images of Christ and Mary with Child. The north transept has a ribbed segmental arch and scissor-braced roof trusses.

Notable fittings include a font with a Romanesque-style rectangular basin featuring blind arcading and mythical creatures, supported by four slim columns with cable moulding. An octagonal wooden pulpit has panelled and traceried sides. The stained glass in all nave windows, the east window, and all the north transept windows is from the early 20th century.