Church Of St Bartholomew

SE 0470 1163 CHURCH LANE Marsden 14/77

25.5.66 Church of St Bartholomew

• II

• Large Neo-perpendicular church by C Hodgson Fowler. Tower added 1911. Hammer dressed stone with ashlar dressings. Pitched slate roof. 4-tier west tower. 5-bay nave with clerestory and lean-to buttressed aisles. 3-bay chancel with lean-to chapel on south side and vestry to north side. South and north porches. Large 3-light traceried aisle windows with similar 2-light windows to clerestory numbering 2 per bay. Large 5-light traceried east window. Large traceried west window. West tower with 4 reducing tiers and reducing angle buttresses. Clock face to 4 sides. Large louvred, traceried bell chamber openings. Crenellated parapet with crocketted pinnacles. Interior: 5-bay arcade to north and south on quatrefoil piers. Tall chancel arch on similar responds. Chancel screen and road loft in well carved oak by J H Gibbons FRIBA of Manchester and London, executed by Messrs Boulton & Co of Cheltenham, dedicated in 1913. Carved oak reveals and painted panel by Hildred Harpin AFICA. Octagonal font with canopy, 1895, restored 1968.

Listing NGR: SE0470711634