The Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a parish church dating from 1702, with a tower built of blue bricks and restored in 1861. It is constructed of brown brick with stone dressings, and has a slate and lead roof. The building consists of a three-bay nave with a choir, a shallow apsidal chancel, and a square west tower, all designed in a classical style.

The tower features a projecting ogee moulded stone plinth and stone quoins. West-facing windows are semi-circular arched with keystones and moulded architraves, mullions, and Venetian tracery at the lower levels. A projecting band is at the level of the nave roof, and above the south-facing clock dial are balanced stained glass bull's eyes in the other faces of the tower. The bell stage has louvred openings with “Y” tracery and hood moulds, topped by an ogee cornice, a red brick solid parapet, and square corner ball finials.

The main entrance on the south side is a six-panel, oak, bolection moulded door set within a stone dressed porch. The porch is surmounted by a pediment supported on Tuscan columns and pilasters, with a four-keystone bull's eye window above. The nave, choir and chancel have a moulded stone plinth and quoins and cross windows with rounded heads, surmounted by small bull’s eyes under semicircular arches with springers. These are topped by a brick and stone cornice and a solid red brick parapet, interrupted by ball-topped pilasters over each window. A north wall entrance features a six-panel bolection moulded door in a projecting moulded stone surround with a key. A high-quality 17th-century marble armorial memorial is fixed to the east chancel external wall.

Inside, two lines of plain circular columns divide the church throughout its length, flanking the apse and separating the nave from the side aisles. The apse has mosaic cladding to window sill level, and displays the Ten Commandments and prayers in panels flanking the window. The choir stalls face each other across an area of mosaic paving. A gothic carved oak eagle lectern and a pine pulpit face oak box pews with fielded panels. Three alabaster wall memorials are located on the south wall of the choir, and two marble war memorials are on the nave’s south wall. The ceiling of the choir/nave is flat with large perimeter mouldings and coves, along with a panelled beam separating the apse. A pine west gallery is supported by two posts with curved brackets, and features a three-panel-door glazed vestry screen below.