Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a parish church built around 1860 by G. Bidlake. It features black brick with limestone dressings, including a plinth band, quoins, cornices, and gable parapets, topped with plain tiled roofs. The church has a north-west tower, a nave with north and south aisles, and north and south porches, along with north and south transeptal chapels and a chancel.

The north-west tower consists of three stages with clasping buttresses that rise to gabled weatherings at the top of the second stage. It has a pierced arcaded parapet supported by machicolations and corner pinnacles. The belfry stage includes paired belfry openings with quatrefoils set over trilobed tracery, both topped with triangular hoodmoulds. An octagonal clock face is located in the second stage, accompanied by a small lancet window. The west doorway at ground level features a moulded arched surround supported by a single columnar order and is framed by a raised triangular gable-hooded surround.

Inside the nave, the west wall displays a four-light perpendicular-style window above three lights, all with triangular hoodmoulds. The eaves cornice includes a corbel table, and there are three clerestory semi-dormers with parapet gables and two-light windows featuring trefoils on quatrefoils in their apices. The south porch, located towards the west of the south aisle, has a moulded door surround with a moulded arched surround and capitals, along with panelled double doors that have decorative strap hinges. The porch also has paired side windows designed in the style of quatrefoils. The aisle windows to the right consist of two triple-arched windows separated by a low buttress. The lower transeptal chapel to the right features a three-light window in a Decorated style. The chancel has a single window on the south side and an east window with five lights and curvilinear tracery. The north aisle contains three triple-arched windows and three clerestory semi-dormer windows similar to those on the south side.