Church Of St Bartholomew

CRESSWELL CRESSELL VILLAGE NZ 29 SE 8/7 Church of St. Bartholomew 24.9.85 GV II

Parish Church, 1836.

Stone with ashlar dressings, all tooled and margined; slate roof. Aisleless nave with south-west porch and short chancel. Romanesque style. Roll-moulded plinth. Round-arched, moulded doorway in porch has trefoiled niche, with Virgin and Child, above; gable cross. Openings round-arched except for 3 trefoil-headed windows in eastern nave bays and porch west wall. Short buttress between west end windows and quatrefoil above. Double bellcote on gable end. chancel windows roll-moulded, the east end pair under trefoiled roundel, both under hoodmoulds with carved stops. Eaves corbel table, with grotesque masks in porch and chancel.

Interior: gallery stair, with stick balusters and vase newel, in west lobby. Lobby doors and gallery front have linenfold panelling. Round chancel arch with dogtooth on shafts with stiff-leaf capitals. Royal Arms of William IV above. Braced king-and-queen-post roof. East window glass by Thomas Willement: medallions "in the style of c,1200".

The church was built for the Baker-Cresswell family of Cresswell Hall, whose family pew at first occupied most of the chancel.

Listing NGR: NZ2906993326