St James The Great

1600, with contemporary windows, chancel restqred by Ewan Christian 1873-4.

Norman style north and south doorways, Perpendicular style tower, chancel has Early English east window.

3-stage tower has west door with fleurons round the architrave, crocketed ogee hood with angels carrying shields as stops, double doors, pointed arched 6-light window above with hood mould, 2 mullions and transom, lattice glazing

weathered angle buttresses with crocketed pinnacles, string courses continued around stair turret but not buttresses, embattled parapet with blind trefoil-headed recesses, central merlon each side has crocketed pinnacle and niche, in east niche a sculptured figure, 2 fine gargoyles to each side, including an anthropophagus to south, the victim's feet resting on the string course and his calves grasped by the dragon's hands

3-bay nave has to north a stair turret (for rood stair) with lancet and pitched roof, two 6-light mullion and transom windows with lattice glazing and hood mould, blocked C12 doorway with jamb shafts with scalloped capitals, round roll-moulded head and hood mould, small lancet with lattice glazing, weathered buttresses

The 18th century sundial is a fairly recent feature. The church itself [[[7425517]]] has its origins in the 12th century.

© Brian Robert Marshall

inserted phallic figure in east wall, probably not pre-Conquest.

Fittings: Perpendicular octagonal bowl font in nave, bowl enriched with arcading, quatrefoils and flowers on an arcaded shaft

pulpit in nave, c.

1630, panelled with sounding board

fine altar table, c.1600, with carved female figures as legs

parts of carved wooden mediaeval screen preserved in nave.

3 early C18 brass memorial plates in nave, to Gabriel Ivy, Richard Ivey and Deborah Ivyleafe, 1737

All windows lattice glazed except north east nave window with stained glass of 1952.