St James' Church is in the village of Great Ormside, Cumbria, England.

[2] It stands on top of a circular mound overlooking the River Eden.

[3] The mound on which the church stands was a sacred site before the coming of Christianity, and was used as a burial place by the Vikings.

[6] The roofs are slated on the south side, and covered in stone flags on the north.

[3] On the south side of the church is a gabled porch, to the east of which is the original doorway, now partly blocked and with an inserted window.

[2] The original doorway is tall and narrow, with a round-arched head, and a blank tympanum.

The south wall of the chancel contains a combined aumbry and piscina in two recesses with semicircular heads.

This is an Anglo-Saxon bowl dating from the 7th or 8th century, and now held in the Yorkshire Museum.

A new cross was added in 1897 to celebrate Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.