Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade I listed church, primarily dating from the early 16th century. It features a nave, chancel, lean-to south aisle, and a double north aisle beneath a M-shaped roof, along with a west tower. The tower has a moulded plinth and offset angle buttresses at the western corners. It includes a pointed arched west door and a three-light window above, flanked by four shields, as well as three-light pointed transomed belfry windows. There is a square southeast stair turret and an oversailing embattled parapet. The south aisle has straight-headed windows with four arched lights and hoodmoulds, along with three-light clerestory windows. The last bay of the nave aisle features a large pointed three-light window under a gable. The east window consists of five lights with rectilinear tracery. The north aisle has various two- and three-light windows with uncusped tracery, and a pointed four-light window leading to a gabled organ loft. The south porch is gabled and embattled, topped with a large cubical sundial, and it protects a doorway with a pointed head and a quarter-round moulded surround, likely from the 14th century. Attached to the wall are three tombstones, including that of Richard Horsfall of Malsis, who died in 1644, and there is a semi-circular mounting block attached to the porch.

Inside, the nave features a north arcade of four bays from the early 13th century, with round columns and semi-circular responds, while the south arcade is supported by octagonal columns. The chancel arch is double-chamfered. The nave roof consists of six bays with alternating moulded tie-beam trusses and arch-braced collars, all braced to the ridge, along with small cusped wind braces. The chancel roof has five bays that elaborate on this design, with arched braces rising from short hammer-beams. The chancel arcade has three bays on octagonal columns. The two north aisles also have arch-braced collar roofs. A concave-sided octagonal font from the early 16th century features symbols of the Passion and the initials LT, which stand for Laurence Townley. The church also contains good late 19th-century pews, chancel and parclose screens, and a pulpit, with the chancel aisle screens dating from the 16th century. Wall monuments commemorate Christopher and John Emmott from 1746, featuring a scrolled tablet with a bust and a medallion, and Richard Emmott from 1761, depicted with a putto holding a shield.