Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a church largely of the early 16th century, with earlier fabric incorporated, and was restored in 1872. It is constructed of sandstone rubble, now unsympathetically pointed, with a stone slate roof. The church comprises a west tower, a nave, a lower chancel, a north aisle under a pitched roof, a south aisle, and a south porch.

The three-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The west doorway has moulded jambs and a two-centred head. Above this doorway is a window of three trefoiled lights with panel tracery and a hood mould. The belfry openings are each of two cusped lights. The north and south aisle windows have been restored, with straight heads and cusped lights. The south porch was rebuilt in 1872 and has an outer doorway with a four-centred head. A chamfered priest's door to the chancel has a four-centred head. A dormer window on the south side of the nave, rebuilt in 1873, features a five-light mullioned window and a timber gable. The east window has an elliptical head and five cusped lights with renewed mullions.

Inside, the nave and chancel are undivided. The north and south arcades have three bays each leading to the nave and two to the chancel. They feature octagonal piers and arches of two chamfered orders, though those to the north are lower and more pointed. Several capitals on the north side are carved. The west respond has two carved female faces with headgear, believed to be from the 14th century. The first pier from the west has various devices carved on its capital, including y-tracery on its side and a quatrefoil. The second pier has five grotesque faces on its west side, including one of an animal. A 13th-century piscina is set in the south wall of the chancel, with a trefoiled head, edge-roll moulding, and nail-head ornament; the bowl is now missing. The roofs of the nave, chancel, and north aisle date from the 19th century, with arch-braced collars and short king posts. The roof of the south aisle is possibly from the 16th century, with moulded purlins, principal rafters, and a wall plate. The font, located at the west end of the south aisle, is believed to date from 1520 and is of sandstone, octagonal in shape, with a shield on each side of the bowl. One shield bears “IB” for Bradley of Bradley Hall, and others display instruments of the Passion. The base of the font is inscribed with inverted letters apparently meaning "Ave Maria Gratia Dominus Tecum."