Church Of St James

The Church of St James is an Anglican parish church located in Stert village, built in 1846 by J.H. Hakewill, which incorporates 16th-century work from a previous church's aisle. The structure is made of coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings and features a stone slate roof. It consists of a nave with a north aisle, a lean-to vestry, a south porch, and a chancel. There is a 19th-century bell turret on the west gable, an east window with three lights, and square-headed windows in the south wall of the nave. The aisle has Tudor arched windows, while the south porch is adorned with bold mouldings, angle buttresses, and a cross finial. The inner door is chamfered.

Inside, the nave arcade features two depressed arches with fleuron ornamented capitals, likely from the 16th century. The roof has three and a half bays with slender trusses supported by corbels and open rafters. The chancel arch rests on corbels and has carved pendents. The short chancel has an open roof and a squint from the north aisle. Notable fittings include a 19th-century font designed in the style of 12th-century intersecting arcades, a pulpit, a reading desk, and choir stalls made of boldly detailed stained timber. The sanctuary rail is similar, supported by turned columns, and the later 19th-century pews have doors. An organ is located at the west end, and there are brass candelabra brackets in the chancel.

Monuments in the church include a wall tablet in the chancel, made of white marble on grey by Tyley of Bristol, commemorating John Gale, who died in 1824. In the nave, there is another wall tablet of white and grey marbles with flanking fluted columns and an urn (damaged) against a grey field, dedicated to John Giddings, who died in 1822, and his family. A brass from 1917 is located in the aisle, and the east window contains 19th-century glass, a gift from Miss Halliday of Erchfont.