Listed Building: CHURCH OF ST JAMES THE GREAT (1384276)

Parish church. 1844-46 by EH Shellard, chancel enlarged 1897 by Naylor and Sale, vestry added c1900. Coursed millstone grit with ashlar dressings, Welsh slate roofs, coped gables with kneelers and cross finials plus 4 octagonal nave pinnacles. STYLE: Gothic Revival. PLAN: nave of 5 bays with north and south aisles, north-west tower with spire, south-west porch and chapel, south-east and south-west chapels and vestry. EXTERIOR: tower of 4 stages, with angle buttresses with set-offs. Blind first stage, single lancets to second and third stages and pairs of lancet bell openings to fourth stage, topped with 4 corner pinnacles and tall octagonal stone spire with lucarnes. West end has triple-arched entrance under hoodmould with head terminals, that to south partially blocked to form window, others with plank doors, strap hinges and overlights. Above 8 lancets with shafts and continuous hoodmould topped by rose window. SW porch and chapel, 2 storey with angle buttresses with set-offs. Pointed arched doorway to north with double doors and continuous lancets, some blind, to first floor with above set back frieze with trefoils. Nave side elevations both have 5 pairs of tall lancets between buttresses with set-offs. South chapel set transeptally with 3 graduated lancets and small shouldered arch doorway to left. North chapel has two 2-light pointed arch windows with continuous hoodmould and coped parapet. Chancel has chamfered east end with tall 2-light pointed arch windows with Y tracery and continuous sill band plus to east single similar 3-light window. INTERIOR: original north and south galleries removed and west gallery altered. 5 bay nave arcades have piers with clustered shafts and foliated capitals. Segmental arch to chancel, 2-centred to chapels. Roof with open arcading above principal ties. Furnishings include wooden linenfold panelling to sanctuary, reredos with central carved Crucifixion scene, altar rails with wrought-iron supports. Choir stalls with closed backs, open frontals and fleur-de-lys finials. Eagle lectern, elaborate wooden pulpit on clustered marble shaft base, the panels with relief carving (1895). Stained glass includes some of 1890 in north aisle and others of c1930 reputedly by Morris & Co. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Derbyshire: London: 1978-: 219; A History of Glossop and Whitfield Church and Parish: 38).