Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a classical church built between 1782 and 1786 on the site of a church from 1651, and is thought to be designed by Joseph Jagger. The tower and north transept were added in 1835 by J P Pritchett, while the neo-Norman chancel was added in 1877-1878 by John Kirk. The tower and nave are constructed of ashlar stone with raised quoins, while the chancel features hammer-dressed stone. The roof is made of stone slate with gable copings on square kneelers and includes a moulded eaves cornice.

The church has a two-storey nave with a band between the floors, a six-bay nave, a two-bay chancel, and a square west tower. The nave has single light windows, with four on the ground floor of the south side, and doorways on either side featuring architraves, a pulvinated frieze, and cornice. The north transept has a three-bay design, one bay deep, with single light windows similar to those in the nave and an oculus in the gable apex. The chancel has slender round-arched single lights with hood moulds, and the east window features three equal round-headed slender single lights with colonnettes and broad foliated capitals, along with a group of three small round-arched lights in the gable apex.

The three-tier west tower has blind round-arched windows in recesses on the second tier and tall three-light louvred openings in the bell chamber. The bell chamber is supported by corner pilasters and features an architrave, frieze, cornice, blocking course, and four large urns.

Inside, there is a gallery at the rear and north over the aisle, supported by slender cast iron columns. The gallery fronts are panelled with a balustrade, and the ceiling is wood panelled and coffered. The round chancel arch is supported by paired, squat, red granite colonnettes. A neo-Norman font was presented in 1878. The church also contains various early and mid-19th century wall memorials, including one to James Brook, who died in 1845, created by H Mares, depicting a kneeling woman by an altar.