The church of St James-the-Less is in Uttoxeter Road, Longton, Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England.

With a capacity of 2000, it was intended to provide for the rapidly growing population of Longton.

Other Commissioners' churches were built in the Staffordshire Potteries around the same time, for example, St Mark's, Shelton, which is slightly larger.

[1] Not long after the completion of St James', one writer suggested that its size was perhaps optimistic given the strength of Nonconformist denominations in the area.

[4] The church was built from Hollington sandstone with a west tower, six-bay nave and clerestory, and a short chancel with polygonal apse.