St James Catholic Church
St James gets its name from this historical church, built in 1858 for the Catholic Filipino fishermen of Kalk Bay, who at the time petitioned the colonial governor of the Cape to build this church as a remedy for the hazardous journey they had to make to Simon's Town each Sunday, by sea or by road. The community built the church themselves and the church steps were documented to have been built from stone taken from the mountain in St James. The church is largely unchanged and still operational with a daily morning Mass (times on the website); the building is not open to the public outside of Mass.
