The Church of St James, Accrington in the County of -- Lancashire --

	The Church of St James, Accrington Photograph by Jenny George

It had in 1650, a minister of its own, Roger Kenyon, 'an able and orthodox divine,' who had £40 a year allowed him out of Royalist or ecclesiastical sequestrations On the return of the old order at the Restoration it ceased to have a curate, and in 1717 was served by the curate of Church Kirk , who preached there once a month and then was from 1721 to 1804 united with Altham. The vicar of Whalley nominated the curates until Hulme's Trustees acquired the patronage about 1840.

St James Church, founded in 1546, originally a chapel of ease for Altham parish church. Rebuilt in 1763 and further extended in 1828. Became a parish church in 1870.

The registers date from 1745.