Tower Of St Bartholomews Church

PARISH OF ILKESTON HALLAM FIELDS ROAD SK 43 NE 6/35 (South Side) Tower of St Bartholomew's Church II

Church tower, now redundant. 1895 by P H Currey. Red brick with gritstone dressings. Square in plan, tapering slightly, with three chamfered stringcourses. Saddleback pantiled roof. Battered gritstone plinth. Red brick above. The east and west, and north and south facades are virtually identical. To the east and west the ground stage has two tall lancets. The second stage is blind. The tall third stage has broad pilaster strips either side of a circular clock face. Decorative machicolation-like motif above with tiny round-arched bell-openings at the top. The south elevation has a segmental arched doorway to the ground floor, a small lancet above, the tall third stage with pilaster strips either side of the circular clock face. Broad louvred bell openings above. The tower stands almost detached at the north west corner of the church, which has been altered, so as no longer to be of special interest.

Listing NGR: SK4764239693