Church of St. James

The Church of St. James is a Grade II listed building constructed from red sandstone with buff Forest of Dean stone dressings. The walls are battered below a string course, and it features Welsh slate roofs. Designed in the Decorated Gothic style, the church comprises an aisleless nave, chancel, vestry, and a north-west tower.

The east window is a three-light design in the Decorated style, featuring two cinquefoils and a trefoil light in the head, supported by angle buttresses. The south side of the chancel has a two-light and a single-light trefoil window, while the north side includes a one-light trefoil-headed window and a vestry with a hipped roof, doorway, and a two-light window, accompanied by a chimney to the right. The south side of the nave has one two-light and two three-light windows, with a similar arrangement on the north side, which also includes a narrow saddle-back porch tower. This tower has three stages with tall lancets in the upper stage and a further nave doorway to the right of the tower. The west end features two two-light windows with quatrefoil plate tracery and a hexfoil above. The roofs are steeply pitched, with coped gables topped by crosses.

Inside, the church has boarded arched roofs supported by iron tie-bars and a broad chancel arch resting on foliated corbels. The octagonal pulpit, featuring blind arcading and stiff-leaf spandrels, dates from 1875 and is likely by Seddon. There is a later polychrome reredos, original pews with prominent carving, and polychrome tile floors. The stained glass includes the east window depicting the Transfiguration by Cox & Co from 1875, the south side of the chancel showing the Good Shepherd by Ward & Hughes, and the north side of the nave featuring Saints James and Peter by Comper from 1906. The west window was created in 1882 by Ward & Hughes. Additionally, there is an octagonal font, probably from the 15th century, originally from Rockfield church.