Church Of St James The Great

The Church of St James the Great is an Anglican church built between 1838 and 1840, with restorations and extensions completed in 1869. It is constructed from small coursed stone with freestone dressings and features slate roofs. The layout includes a nave, north and south aisles with galleries and clerestories, and a west tower. The 1869 restoration involved rebuilding the clerestory and chancel, as well as adding an organ chamber and vestry.

Architecturally, the church is designed in the Gothic lancet style. The exterior showcases tall aisles with plain lancet windows, buttresses between, and a small clerestory with quatrefoil windows. The chancel and vestry have smaller lancets, and the east window consists of three lancets. The west tower features a short second stage, set-back buttresses, tall two-light lancet bell-openings, and a low pyramidal roof topped with an iron weather-vane. The tower has a moulded ashlar parapet, while the east gables are adorned with coping and crosses. The ground at the east end slopes down, revealing a tall dressed stone plinth.

Inside, the church has plastered walls and seven-bay north and south arcades supported by thin columns with rings and ornate foliage capitals, leading to two-centred arches. The roof, added in 1869, is arch-braced on corbels between small clerestory windows. There are galleries over the aisles and the west end of the nave, featuring cusped panel fronts and box-pews. The chancel arch is supported by corbel colonnettes, and the chancel roof mirrors that of the nave. The aisle roofs include ties and cusped struts. The furnishings are largely intact and include benches, an ornate wrought-iron chancel screen, a Gothic pulpit made of Caen stone on clustered alabaster shafts, a font, and a painted triptych retable located in the west gallery. The east window features stained glass dating from around 1840.