Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a church dating from 1851, designed by Stevens, with a vestry added in 1859 by G E Street. It is constructed of coursed squared rock-faced sandstone with sandstone dressings and quoins, featuring continuous sill bands to the nave aisle windows and an eaves band resting on carved corbels. The steeply pitched Westmorland slate roofs have stone coped gables with moulded kneelers and ridge crosses to the east gable ends.

The church comprises a west tower, nave, nave aisles, a lower chancel, a north vestry, and a south porch, all designed in the Early English style. The west tower has stepped clasping buttresses rising to the fourth stage. A trefoil-headed entrance door is flanked by lancets with moulded hoods. A projecting stair turret is located on the north east corner, also with trefoil windows. Above the door are two lancets joined by a thin blind lancet, all with moulded hoods. The third stage has small lancets to the north and south, along with a trefoil window to the west. Above the triple lancet is a louvred bell opening on all sides, featuring corner pilasters, a stringcourse on carved corbels, and a broached spire with gabled lucarnes to each side. A plate tracery west nave aisle window is set into the north elevation. The north elevation also has four double lancets with moulded hoods, stepped buttresses between, and four trefoil windows to the clerestory. A projecting north vestry is situated to the east, with a centrally positioned moulded doorcase, nook shafts to the sides, and pointed plate tracery windows on either side. C20 additions to the east include a 5-light ogee topped window and a plate tracery window to the vestry. A 4-light east window with geometric tracery is flanked by gableted buttresses. Two lancets with moulded hoods are found on the south chancel wall, alongside a double lancet and triple lancets in the south nave aisle, with buttresses separating the windows. The south porch features an elaborately moulded doorcase, nook shafts, and double lancet windows on either side.

Inside, alternating arcades showcase octagonal and circular piers with moulded capitals and double chamfered arches, all adorned with hoodmoulds featuring carved head label stops. Similar tall tower and chancel arches are present. The chancel has a scissor truss roof. A large roll moulded arch leads to a north aisle chapel to the north of the chancel, filled by wooden tracery. A trefoil headed piscina is positioned to the east, and an elaborately cusped wooden door provides access to the north chapel from the north aisle, which features blind arcaded walls. A William Morris & Co window in the south aisle commemorates William Howe, inventor of link motion for locomotives. A contemporary cusped stone and wood pulpit is also present. A re-used 15th-century octagonal font, with traceried panels to sides and base, completes the interior.