Church Of St Philip And St James

The Church of St Philip and St James is an Anglican parish church built between 1838 and 1839 by Richard Carver, the County Architect and Surveyor. It is constructed from coursed and squared rubble with freestone dressings, featuring slender buttresses with offsets, coped verges, and a slate roof. The east side has a cruciform finial, while the west side boasts a polygonal stone bellcote with an embattled parapet and a ribbed stone spirelet topped with a poppy finial and weathervane. The bellcote has wooden louvres and bell-openings on alternating faces.

The church consists of a nave, chancel, south porch, and north vestry, designed in the Decorated style. The nave has three bays with 2-light windows that include simple stone tracery. The west end features a narrow door opening above a blank 4-light stone mullioned and transomed window. The porch is simple with a plain outer door opening, a flagstone floor, and an inner plank door with good iron hinges. The small vestry is plain.

The chancel has a single bay with 2-light square-headed windows on the north and south sides, and a 3-light east window with intersecting tracery. The interior is plastered with flagstone, tile, and encaustic tile floors. The nave has a plastered elliptical-shaped ceiling, while the chancel features a plastered wagon ceiling and bold ornamental cornices. The chancel arch is also plastered.

The church fittings are contemporary and include a west gallery, pews, a font, a reader, a pulpit, a decalogue plaque, altar rails, and choir stalls. Notable items include a Jacobean coffin stool and a 19th-century wheeled bier. The west window contains stained glass from 1864, while the other windows have plain square paned leaded lights. There is also a brass memorial plaque from 1892.