Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a parish church located in Wolsingham, built around 1840 with a later 19th-century chancel and a tower added in 1891. It is constructed from sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings and features Welsh slate roofs with stone gable copings. The church has a three-bay nave that includes a south-west tower and a three-bay chancel.

The tower has a four-centred-arched entrance with linenfold panelling beneath a stepped drip-string. The second stage of the tower features paired louvred belfry openings with Tudor heads set in a square surround. The structure is supported by diagonal buttresses and has a battlemented parapet adorned with Tudor flowers and corner gargoyles. The slender octagonal spire includes paired louvred openings at its base and is topped with an iron cross finial. A sundial is situated between the nave's lancet windows, while the lower chancel has two-light Decorated windows framed by buttresses, along with diagonal east buttresses. The east window of the chancel is a three-light Decorated style. The roofs are supported by block kneelers at the copings and feature stone cross finials and a west bellcote.

Inside, the church has plastered walls, an ashlar chancel arch, and a king post nave roof that is ceiled above the collar beams. The chancel roof is designed with cusped scissor trusses. The chancel arch is double-chamfered and has a two-centred shape with filleted shafts and a head-stopped drip mould. There are three steps leading up to the chancel and one step to the sanctuary. A filleted east sill string creates a reredos cornice, above which is a brass strip with a Gothic-lettered inscription commemorating Rev. J. Elliot, who died in 1855. The church also features a cusped two-centred-arched aumbry and sedilia with ball-flower stopped drip moulds. A Gothic-arcaded stone communion rail has Frosterley marble shafts, and there is a 17th-century Frosterley marble font on a water-leaf base, likely originally from Wolsingham parish church. The mid-19th-century glass in the west, east, and some chancel windows is notable for its strong primary colours.