Sunday
9.00 am - Family Communion
(From July 13 the service time will be 10.30 am for 6 weeks)

3rd Sunday in the month
3.30 pm - Newton on the Moor - Family Communion

Monday - Friday
9.15 am - Morning Prayer

The first Saxon church was probably a wooden structure on the present site, but after the Norman conquest the noble family of TISON put up the first stone building. The small Norman Church lasted with periodic restorations until the 1880's when it was pulled down and a new building was erected to the designs of the Newcastle architect W.S. Hicks. Some features of the old church were retained - the arch over the door-way under the porch, the chancel arch re-sited over the North Transept above the organ, two small narrow windows outside built into the north wall and the bowl of the Font are all Norman.

The East Window is the village memorial placed here in 1921.

The ceilings are a particularly beautiful feature of the church, with the symbols of the Passion shown decorating the area beneath the Tower.

The church, as was the previous building, is dedicated in the name of the Apostle, James the Great, who is remembered in the Church calendar each year on 25th July.

There is a monthly Parish Newsletter - The Scallop Shell - which incorporates village and church news. A drop-in for Young People takes place on a Friday evening in the Parish Room.

Money has been recently acquired from English Heritage for a new heating system and other essential repairs. The church has to find some match funding for this.

The people in the church are heavily involved in all the Village Organisation and Activities.

The Village Forum has submitted a second stage application to the New Opportunities Fund for a Healthy Living Centre and this needs an enormous amount of match funding.

The church is also part of the Village Co-operative which was set up to save the village shop.