Church Of St James

The Church of St James is a small Anglican church with Norman origins. The south aisle was rebuilt around 1200, and the chancel was altered with a rebuild in 1848. The church is constructed of coursed rubble stone, featuring an ashlar east end, and has a stone slate roof with coped verges and saddlestones topped with cross finials.

It includes a west tower, a nave with a narrow south aisle, and a south porch that adjoins the south transeptal gable, leading to a lower projecting chancel. The tower has two stages with string courses, and the upper embattled stage, dating from the 15th century, is adorned with gargoyles and mullioned belfry lights on the north and west faces. The church predominantly features two-light plate tracery windows, with replacements on the north and east sides from the 19th century.

The south porch showcases a Norman doorway, which includes dogtooth and horseshoe diapering on the lintel and tympanum, a roll moulded arch, and scalloped capitals on the side shafts that are cut short at the stone seats. Inside, there is a three-bay Early English arcade on the south side with clustered shafts and foliated capitals. The nave has a plain plastered vault, while the chancel features four shallow bays of arch-braced principals supported by long decorative corbels. The south aisle contains several fine stone wall tablets, mostly from the 18th century. The east window has a rere-arch with marble side colonnettes.