Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a church built in 1875 by J W Hugall. It is constructed of rubble with slate roofs and a shingle spire. The church features a nave, north and south aisles, a south-west tower, and a lower chancel. The west wall of the nave has three stepped trefoiled lights with pointed heads and trefoils. The tower includes angle buttresses, and its bell openings consist of two pointed openings with stone louvres under a pointed head. The broach spire has lucarnes, and there is a clock face on the west side of the tower, dated "1897". The lower stage of the tower has a porch with a pointed south doorway, above which is a blind arcade of three pointed arches. The south aisle has windows with three, two, and two trefoiled pointed lights, while a curved wall at the east end of the aisle connects it to the chancel, which contains three pointed lights. The south chancel window features three lights, and the north aisle windows have three, two, two, and two lights. The north chancel window has three cusped lights under a pointed head, and the east window consists of three foiled lights with a foiled circle above. A crypt is lit by a three-light pointed window.

Inside, the church has arcades of four bays on the north side and three bays on the south side. The pointed arches have edge roll mouldings and spring from round piers that are banded with alternate grey and yellow stone, featuring foliated capitals. The roof trusses have arch-braced collars that support king-posts turned to a round section, braced to the ridge. The inner order of the pointed chancel arch springs from corbelled responds. At the north end of the south aisle, there is a chapel with a curved outer wall. A pointed arch in the north wall of the chancel contains an organ. The church also features double sedilia and a piscina. The east window contains fine late 19th-century glass, likely by Hardman. Additionally, there is a decorated wall tablet in memory of Thomas Evans, who died in 1671, re-set on the wall of the north aisle.