Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a church built in 1875 by Ewan Christian, located on Church Road in Huyton-with-Roby. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and features a banded slate roof. The church includes a nave with aisles that have lean-to roofs, a west tower, a chancel, and north and south vestries.

The tower is notable for its weathered setback buttresses and has a blocked west entrance with a 3-light window featuring reticulated tracery above, which is also blocked. There are clock faces on the north and south sides of the tower, paired 2-light louvred bell openings, a ball flower cornice, and a broach spire adorned with lucarnes and a decorative band. The aisles are characterized by gableted kneelers and 2-light windows with reticulated tracery set between weathered buttresses. The clerestory features paired windows with cusped Y-tracery between flat buttresses. An open timber porch is located on the south side.

The chancel has a round end and contains five traceried lancets positioned between gabled buttresses. The flanking gabled vestries each have two cusped lancets and a trefoil on the north and south sides, with the northern vestry also featuring an entrance with a shouldered lintel, a stack at the angle, and a 20th-century extension.

Inside, the tall narrow nave has arcades supported by chamfered square piers and end corbels, along with a waggon roof. The chancel arch is corbelled, and there are segmental-pointed arches at the east ends of the aisles with panelling infill. The chancel screen, added in 1928, features two Egyptian columns, an entablature, and cresting with a rood and angels. The chancel is furnished with a pulpit, panelling, an altar, and a reredos that incorporates 41 16th-century Flemish relief panels depicting biblical scenes, saints, and virtues. Similar stalls with relief panels and ends featuring kneeling figures in prayer are also present. The church has an octagonal stone font supported by four marble shafts, with alabaster angels at the angles. There is also notable 19th-century stained glass, including the south aisle west window from 1899, created by C.E. Kempe.