Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a parish church located in Sunderland Bridge, built between 1843 and 1846 by architect George Pickering. The north wall was demolished and a new nave and chancel were added between 1876 and 1878 by C.H. Fowler. The church is designed in a Romanesque style with Decorated Gothic additions, constructed from squared sandstone with dressings and Welsh slate roofs.

The building features a west tower, with the original nave now serving as the south aisle and the original chancel now functioning as a vestry and organ chamber. The tower and the original nave and chancel have round-arched openings of two orders, with roll-moulded outer orders supported by colonnettes with scalloped capitals. The four-stage tower includes clasping buttresses on the lower stages, a south doorway, two-light belfry windows, and a parapet on a corbel table. The original three-bay nave has a chamfered plinth, flat-buttressed bay divisions, sill and impost bands, and a single window under a hoodmould in each bay. It also features a corbel table at the eaves of a steeply-pitched roof with coped gables. The lower, narrower original two-bay chancel shares similar architectural details, including a south doorway with zigzag decoration on the outer order, paired lights in each bay, a single window on the buttressed east end, and a steeply-pitched roof. The added nave and chancel are slightly longer and taller, featuring pointed two- and three-light windows with trefoil-headed lights, a similar five-light east window, and steep roofs.

Inside, the original north wall was replaced in 1876 by a five-bay wood arcade leading to the nave and a two-bay pointed stone arcade leading to the chancel. The original semicircular chancel arch consists of two orders, with the outer order displaying zigzag decoration on the responds with scalloped capitals. The added nave features an arch-braced king-post roof, while the added chancel includes a 1897 Perpendicular-style rood screen and a barrel roof. An elaborate crocketed early 19th-century wooden font cover is also present, along with some stained glass from around 1876 by Clayton and Bell.