Parish Church of St James

The parish church of St James likely incorporates elements from the 12th century, but was largely rebuilt in the 16th century and altered in the 18th century. The building is constructed of rubble-stone walls with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof with raised gable ends.

The church has a simple, rectangular plan, oriented east-west, forming a single, undivided space with no distinction between nave and chancel. It is a single storey in height. The north wall contains two late 16th century windows, each with three or four-centred lights set within a square head. The south wall has two similar windows, the eastern one with two lights and the western one with three. Between these is the west jamb of a destroyed doorway, probably from the 16th century. The west wall features an 18th century doorway with an architrave and cornice, above which is a circular window, also from the 18th century. A large, circular east window, dating from the 18th century, contains cusped tracery forming a six-pointed star pattern, with daggers and trefoils, possibly added in the 19th century or as early as the early 18th century.

Inside, a continuous, plastered segmental wagon roof has a wooden soffit rising from pilasters to differentiate the nave from the chancel. The north, south, and west windows all have deeply splayed openings. The east end features the circular east window, with 18th century square panelling built around it, having moulded edges and a carved cornice with foliage and the heads of putti.

Principal fittings date from the 18th century, including a stone font with a bulbous octagonal stem and bowl, wooden communion rails with moulded balusters and rail, and oak pews with plain ends and chamfered edges. A combined pulpit and reading desk from the 19th century is also present. Stained glass in the west window commemorates Ann Bunch, who died in 1890. The stained glass in the east window, in memory of Charles Crew who died at sea in 1893, depicts angels in various attitudes, with one figure within each of the small fields created by the tracery, and brightly-coloured margins.