St James Church

St James Church is a 19th-century building designed in the Decorated style. It features brown snecked stone with pale freestone dressings and a slate roof. The church has angle buttresses, and most of its windows are adorned with hoodmoulds that have head stops. The layout includes a nave, aisles, chancel, north and south transepts, a south porch, and vestries located to the north of the chancel.

The west nave window is a three-light design, while each aisle end has a two-light window. The south gabled porch has angle buttresses, polygonal shafts, floral decorations in the hollow of the arch, and stone benches inside. The entrance doorway to the church has a simple arch. The aisle windows also feature hoodmoulds with head stops, and there is a four-light window in the south transept.

Adjacent to the chancel is a single bay organ chamber with a three-light round window that includes a quatrefoil to the east. The chancel has a priest’s door and a two-light window, along with a six-light east window that showcases intersecting tracery. To the north of the chancel are the vestries, which include a three-light east window and an octagonal stone chimney. There is also a flat-roofed boiler room entrance in the northwest angle of the transept and a door at the west end of the aisle.

The nave consists of four bays supported by round shafts with floral capitals, featuring relief roundels of prophets in the spandrels. Both the nave and chancel have open braced roofs. The south transept altar is decorated with wooden traceried panels on the altar and reredos. The south chancel organ chamber is present as well. The inner orders of the arches of the chancel arch and the north and south 'chapels' rest on corbelled shafts with floral or angel corbels and floral capitals. The east and west windows were created in 1953-54 by Gerald Smith of A K Nicholson.