Church Of St James

The Church of St James comprises a 14th-century north transept, now used as a vestry, with a chancel, nave, and tower largely rebuilt in 1733 at the expense of Gilbert Adderley. The church was later Gothicised in 1881 by Arthur Blomfield. The building is constructed of sandstone with Flemish bond brick dressings, and features plain-tile roofs with terracotta ridge cresting and stone-coped gable parapets.

The chancel is two bays long and has an east window with bar tracery and foliage stops to the hood mould, a moulded sill course and a two-light window on the south side and a one-light window on the north side, all with brick voussoirs. The south porch has buttresses and a doorway with two moulded orders, nook shafts, a hood mould featuring foliage stops, and a double leaf door. The nave has three windows with cusped Y-tracery on the south side, a similar one-window range on the north side, and a renewed traceried three-light east window to the transept. The west wall features two slate headstones; one dated 1734 commemorates Gilbert Adderley, who paid for the church's 1733 rebuilding, and another commemorates Thomas Adderley from 1757. A fine coat of arms is also present. The two-stage tower has clasping buttresses with gablets. The west doorway has a moulded outer and chamfered inner order, with a plank door and a hood mould with a head stop. The bell-chamber openings have cusped Y-tracery, wood louvres, and hood moulds with foliage stops. A rose window with Star of David tracery is located on the east side. The steep pyramid roof has lucarnes and a weathervane.

The interior is plastered and features moulded arches to the east window, attached shafts, and a decorated hood mould. It also contains a three-bay boarded barrel roof, a chancel arch of 1881 with half-octagonal responds and head stops, and a late 20th-century enclosed screen. The north arch of the nave is from the 14th century. The trenched purlin roof has chamfered tie and collar beams with braces. A font bowl from the early 12th century has intersecting blind arcading and a 19th-century stem. A hexagonal pulpit from 1733 has bolection and fielded panels. There are cut-down 18th-century panelled pews, late 19th-century encaustic tiles, and other fittings. Stained glass windows are by Kempe, located in the nave’s south-east corner, and a tower window of 1916.