Church Of St James The Apostle

The Church of St James the Apostle is a church built between 1856 and 1857 for John Frederick Greenwood. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and features grey slate roofs. The church has a west tower that consists of three stages topped with a tall spire. The nave has four bays and is flanked by north and south aisles, with a north porch and a two-bay chancel. The design is in the Gothic style, reminiscent of the late 13th to early 14th centuries. The building includes hoodmoulds with head-stops above the doors and geometrical tracery in the windows, which have two lights in the nave and chancel, and a three-light window in the east wall. The tower is supported by diagonal buttresses and features a tall belfry window similar to that of the nave, along with a broach spire that has lucarnes. Inside, the pews may date from the addition of a vestry and organ chamber in 1887. A notable feature is the chancel arch, which has relief carvings of grapes and wheat below the springer level. The reredos includes figures depicted in mosaic and marble, styled in a pre-Raphaelite manner.