St James Parish Church (C of I), Longland Road, Donemana, Strabane, Co Tyrone, BT82 0PH

St James Parish Church is a Gothic Revival Church of Ireland building constructed in 1879, positioned on the east side of Longland Road in Donemana. The church comprises a rectangular nave with a gabled chancel to the north, abutted at the west by a square tower. A single-storey lean-to vestry extends to the north-east, gabled transepts project to the east and west, and a single-storey gabled porch is situated to the south-west.

The roofs are pitched natural slate with blue and black clay ridge tiles, featuring exposed rafter-ends to the eaves and raised sandstone verges over cavetto moulded kneelers. A decorative chimney-stack rises from the north gable. The walls are constructed of roughly coursed rubble with sandstone quoins set above a splayed plinth. Windows throughout are gothic arched with cusped geometric tracery containing leaded stained glass, set within stepped sandstone surrounds with flush chamfered sills and rubble voussoirs. The tower contains cusped gothic arched windows with leaded lattice lights.

The principal western elevation presents a two-window-wide nave at the centre, flanked on the left by a transept and on the right by the porch. The transept features a large tracery window surmounted by a cusped gothic arched opening reaching to the apex, with a cast-iron grille at low level. The porch contains a gothic arched rebated and chamfered sandstone opening surmounted by a hood mould with decorative label-stops, containing double-leaf vertically-sheeted timber entrance doors. A blind quatrefoil oculus occupies the apex, with cusped gothic arched windows to the north and south elevations of the porch.

The two-staged tower includes an entrance opening detailed as the porch, surmounted by a single window. The north elevation of the tower contains a single ground-floor window surmounted by two windows. A moulded stringcourse marks the belfry stage, which features two gothic arched chamfered sandstone louvred openings within square-headed recessed panels on each elevation, surmounted by a quatrefoil fretted balustrade parapet with pinnacles. A recessed octagonal sandstone spire crowns the tower, surmounted by a cast-iron finial.

The north elevation is abutted at the centre by the gabled chancel, which contains a large window surmounted by a hood mould with decorative label-stops and a cusped gothic arched opening to the apex. The east elevation consists of a three-window-wide nave to the left, with the left window diminished and fitted with secondary glazing, abutted on the right by the transept detailed as on the west elevation. The vestry to the north contains a square-headed dipartite window with leaded lattice lights.

The south elevation contains a group of three gothic arched windows, with the centre window larger than its flanking examples, fitted with secondary glazing and surmounted by a hood mould with decorative label-stops and a cusped gothic arched opening to the apex.

The church sits within a rural churchyard containing twentieth-century memorials and gravestones to the west. A gated plot to the west wall encloses a marble memorial stone commemorating a former rector of the parish, dated 1897. The site is bounded on all sides by rubble walling with rubble coping, accessed through a swan-neck alcoved entrance flanked by square sandstone piers with pyramidal coping supporting a pair of wrought-iron gates.

Rainwater goods consist of cast-iron box gutters and round downpipes.