St James

The chancel is buttressed and the whole lit by Tudor style arched windows with intersecting tracery.

A moulded chamfered arch leads into the chancel which has a depressed Tudor-arched roof divided into panels by moulded ribs with carved bosses at the intersections.

The chancel is lit through the apse and by a pair of Tudor style, two-light windows in each of the long walls.

Between each pair of windows is a hatchment and on the southern wall a First World War memorial plaque.

A moulded Tudor arch leads into the apse from the chancel and this is filled with a glazed wooden framed partition.

The apse has a pretty plastered Gothic vault, the eastern wall is decorated with slender plaster piers and has a number of wall monuments to members of the Gregory family.

The floor is of woodblock and the pulpit, reading desk and a fragment of chancel screen are part of a suite of possibly 1817 date are all panelled with blind trefoil-headed arches.

The baptistry has c.1955 stained glass windows in a conservative style and contains the font with a deep octagonal bowl on an octagonal stem.

The font is difficult to date, but Pevsner suggests that it may belong to the 1660's.

The medieval church on this site was demolished in the early part of the C19 and replaced in 1817 by a small church with apse.

John Newborn The Church of St James is listed Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It is a distinctive church commissioned by a prominent local family and executed to a high standard. * Later alterations and extensions have been executed sympathetically and add to the interest of the building. * The unusual form of the nave roof with its curving cruck-like principal rafters creating a striking internal space is especially noteworthy. * It retains a good range of memorials and furniture.