St James The Less

Rubble, freestone dressings, quoins and chequers, double roman tile roofs with raised, coped verges and saddle stones.

first stage has a small, pointed west door below a defaced stellate hood, above that is a restored 3-light window, hood stops are crude faces, on either side is a trefoil headed blank arcade, shafts culminating in figures, faces, mainly blank shields and, in this case 2 plain crosses

third stage has 1 tall transmullioned, barely pointed 2-light window per side, cusped herds, blank below transom, pierced shutters above, gargoyles below parapet with trefoil-headed panels, at the corners buttresses are surmounted by shafts with crocketed finials, at north a figure of a knight.

north porch has a moulded doorway, plank and batten studded door and a stoup on a shaft, a carved fragment which may be of Saxon origin is set in door reveal

3-bay Tudor arch arcade to south chapel with simple, original wagon roof, bosses and embattled wall plate, inserted painted timber screen, arch as at chancel leads to south aisle with 3-bay arcade on octagonal shafts, plain wagon roof on stone corbels rebuilt 1950s, remains of piscina at south- east, sacristy inserted in south-west corner.

Fittings: good benches, some copies but substantially of C15/C16 with heavy linenfold ends, some dado panels.

Jacobean pulpit with tester, repositioned and restored below the style, octagonal, arched panels, tester with strapwork and finials, rear panel reads: ROBERT.HO/OPPER.

2-tier brass chandelier reads: GILES LORINGE WILLIAM PAYNE CHURCH WARDENS 1725.

Memorials: Poyntz (south) chapel has 3 incised stones to the Poyntz family, 2 recumbent figures a knight and a lady, C16 chest tomb with canopy with finals which flank a pierced, ashlared frieze.

in chancel a plain Jacobean table tomb and a good tablet, crude Tuscan columns carry entablature below swan-neck pediment and arms, to Machin, 1716 and a carved and painted table to Rev. Thomas Shute and wife, 1728

south aisle has a small tablet with momento mori, John Trevitt, 1686, and another tablet similar to and by the same hand as that in chancel, Wither 1720.

Glass: north-east window of chancel has mediaeval fragments. ).