Church of St James

The Church of St James is a small church built in the late 15th century, featuring a timber belfry. It is constructed of rubble stone with some ashlar dressings, topped with a stone tile roof and tile ridge. The layout includes a nave, chancel, vestry, porch, and a timber bell-turret at the west end. The bell-turret is square with a hipped roof, and each wall has a lower panel of tall studs topped by a row of small turned balusters.

The southeast front has a gabled entrance porch with a semicircular arched doorway made of stone voussoirs. To the left, the south wall of the nave features a late 15th-century Perpendicular style two-light window with ribbed panelling above. To the right of the porch, there is a similar three-light window. There is a straight joint in the masonry between the chancel and nave. The south wall of the chancel has a blocked Tudor arched doorway and a Tudor arched window. The northwest elevation shows signs of Victorian restoration. The north wall of the chancel has an attached 19th-century vestry with a pointed arched doorway and a boarded door with ornamental strap hinges, along with a small lancet window. The north wall of the nave has an off-centre 19th-century buttress with raking offsets, a single-light window with a four-centred arch to the right, and a similar three-light window to the left. The east window is a late 15th-century three-light window with lattice glazing.

Inside, the nave and chancel have stripped walls, and both feature wagon roofs with moulded ribs, painted octagonal bosses, and a battlemented wall plate, all dating from the late 15th century. The window openings are deeply splayed. There are two rectangular aumbries on the north and east walls of the chancel. The 18th-century panelled pulpit and reading desk are notable features, along with a carved wooden figure of St James on the south wall of the nave. A 19th-century six-light chandelier hangs from the ceiling. Several fittings were added during the 1955 restoration, including the altar rail, pews, and font cover. At the west end, a post and panel partition features painted figures in four panels (the Virgin and Child, Christ, a King—possibly St Edward—and an unidentified Bishop) and is said to have been imported from a redundant chapel at Whitford, Devon, between 1954 and 1955.