Architectural Features
3-stage tower has west door with pointed arch, with 2 wave-moulded orders and hood mould, 3-light Perpendicular window above with hood mould and relieving arch, 2nd stage north has small trefoil-headed window with pierced wooden shutters and hood mould, clock, 3rd stage all sides 3-light Perpendicular window, with pierced stone tracery in central light, pierced wooden shutters to outer lights, hood mould and relieving arch, polygonal stair turret to north east, diagonal buttresses, moulded string courses, embattled parapet with pierced stone tracery, fine gargoyles with rainwater chutes, pinnacles to corners and centrally to sides, turret has gargoyles, tall parapet, crocketed pinnacles and spirelet with weathervane.
5-bay south aisle has tall west lancet, angle buttresses, buttresses to south, two 3-light windows with trefoil heads and hood mould, door with pointed chamfered arch between, C17 4-light window with ovolo mullions
17th century building, with later additions and alterations, located on the south side of Westerleigh Road. The building was Grade II listed in 1952 (as the King's Arms Inn). The top of the Church of St James the Great is in the background.
king mullion, segmental heads to lights and hood mould, to right a pointed arched C13 priest's door and 3-light Perpendicular window
Part of the Church of England Diocese of Bristol, the church has 13th century origins, with many later alterations and rebuildings. Grade I listed in 1985. Two of Christ's apostles were named James. Traditionally considered the first apostle to be martyred, James the Great was the son of Zebedee and Salome, and brother of John the Apostle. He is referred to as James the Great to distinguish him from James, son of Alphaeus, who is known as James the Less. James the Great is the patron saint of Spaniards, and as such is often identified as Santiago.
3-light east window in late C13 style but not authentic.
Interior: tower has fine framed ceiling with heavy moulded and stopped beams, upright members to right and left of door with scrolled carved tops, panelled screen to east with moulded and stopped jambs to frame, segmental inner arch with door, inscription recording installation of screen by William Prigge and Thomas Rudge, churchwardens, 1638
5-bay south arcade of octagonal piers, pointed arches with 2 chamfered orders, richly carved image niche in spandrel over pier in nave
wagon roof with brattished wall- plate, moulded collar purlin and carved bosses, mostly C19 restoration.
South aisle has pointed arch to east chapel, slightly lower arcade of 2 bays between chapel and chancel, with C19 low stone screen, pointed chancel arch with C19 rebuilding of squint to right, C15 triple sedilia to right, chancel and aisle have roof as in nave.
unusually large Royal Arms of George II in aisle
2 hatchments in nave recording benefactors of church
stone monument with oval panel, draped curtains, cherub, partly painted gold, 1723, dedication illegible
Fragments of mediaeval glass in upper tracery of Perpendicular window in north nave.