Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. Church.
Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- idle-storey-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Bartholomew, Cresswell Village
- OS grid reference
- NZ 290 933
- Coordinates
- 55.2333, -1.54449
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Bartholomew is a parish church built in 1836. It is constructed of stone with ashlar dressings, all tooled and margined, and features a slate roof. The church has an aisleless nave, a south-west porch, and a short chancel, all designed in a Romanesque style. The exterior includes a roll-moulded plinth and a round-arched, moulded doorway in the porch, which has a trefoiled niche above featuring a Virgin and Child, along with a gable cross. Most openings are round-arched, except for three trefoil-headed windows in the eastern nave bays and the porch's west wall. There is a short buttress between the west end windows with a quatrefoil above, and a double bellcote on the gable end. The chancel windows are roll-moulded, with the east end pair situated under a trefoiled roundel, both beneath hoodmoulds with carved stops. The eaves corbel table features grotesque masks in the porch and chancel.
Inside, there is a gallery stair with stick balusters and a vase newel in the west lobby. The lobby doors and gallery front are adorned with linenfold panelling. The round chancel arch has dogtooth detailing on the shafts with stiff-leaf capitals, and the Royal Arms of William IV is displayed above. The roof features braced king-and-queen-post construction. The east window glass, created by Thomas Willement, includes medallions "in the style of c.1200."
The church was built for the Baker-Cresswell family of Cresswell Hall, whose family pew originally occupied most of the chancel.
Local climate
Church of St Bartholomew receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 86% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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