Richard Waldo Sibthorp, a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, purchased the chapel and ministered to its congregation until 1841.

From then, it was passed on several times, before in 1903 it was transferred to a group of five trustees, which holds it to this day.

[1] The organ was built in 1911 by James Ivemey of Southampton.

It was later replaced by an organ originally in a Methodist church on St. Peter's Street in Winchester.

St James' Church continues to be highly active with services at 10:30am and 6:30pm each Sunday, as well as a range of youth groups and mid-week groups.