Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a church built between 1887 and 1888 by architect A.W. Blomfield. It is constructed of red brick with limited stone dressings and features slate roofs. The church has a tall clerestory and steeply-pitched roofs, with a flat east end that includes a five-light lancet window. The lower north-east chapel has an apsidal end.

Inside, there is a five-bay brick arcade with a brick string course above and circular stone piers. The roof is made of braced timber. Each aisle contains five pairs of 2-light windows, and the clerestory has paired lancets. Notable fittings include a wrought-iron screen and rood in the chancel, patterned encaustic tiles on the chancel floor, and an organ on the south side dating from 1884. The pulpit, designed in the Early English style, is made of Caen stone topped with Irish shell marble, featuring columns of red Devonshire marble and shafts of Bristol Pennant and Corshill stone, carved by Gilbert Seale. The font is made of Caen stone on a Portland stone base, with a shaft of red Corshill and columns of Irish shell marble, and includes a palindromic inscription in Greek.

The stained glass includes the chancel east window from 1890 by Kempe, Lady Chapel apse windows from 1888 by Westlake, Lady Chapel north windows from 1893 by Kempe, a south aisle west window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, north and south aisle windows by Edward Frampton, a Resurrection window by Kempe, and the nave west window from 1892 by Kempe.