Church Of St Bartholomew

HUYTON-WITH-ROBY CHURCH ROAD SJ 49 SW (west side) Roby

5/4 Church of - St. Bartholomew

• II

Church. 1875. By Ewan Christian. Rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and banded slate roof. Nave with aisles under lean-to roofs, west tower, chancel, north and south vestries. Tower has weathered setback buttresses. Blocked west entrance with 3-light window with reticulated tracery above, also blocked. Clock faces to north and south. Paired 2-light louvred bell openings, ball flower cornice and broach spire with lucarnes and decorative band. Aisles have gableted kneelers and 2-light windows with reticulated tracery between weathered buttresses. Clerestory has paired windows with cusped Y-tracery between flat buttresses. Open timber porch to south. Chancel has round end; 5 traceried lancets between gabled buttresses. Flanking gabled vestries have 2 cusped lancets and trefoil to north and south; that to north has entrance with shouldered lintel, stack to angle, and C20 extension. Interior; Tall narrow nave has arcades on chamfered square piers and end corbels; waggon roof. Corbelled chancel arch and segmental-pointed arches to east ends of aisles with panelling infill. Chancel screen, 1928, has 2 Egyptian columns, entablature and cresting with rood and angels. Chancel has pulpit, panelling, altar and reredos incorporating 41 C16 Flemish relief panels of biblical scenes, saints and virtues. Similar stalls with relief panels and ends with kneeling figures in prayer. Octagonal stone font with 4 marble shafts and alabaster angels to angles. Good C19 glass, including south aisle west window, 1899, by C.E. Kempe.

Listing NGR: SJ4322390923