Church Of St Bartholomew And Farnham Chapel

The Church of St. Bartholomew and Farnham Chapel dates primarily from the 12th to 14th centuries, with substantial alterations in 1842. Constructed of granite rubble stone with stone dressings, it features Welsh slate and lead roofs, stone coped gables, cross finials, a projecting stack, and a truncated ridge stack. The church comprises a west tower, nave, north aisle, Farnham Chapel (south aisle), chancel, north organ chamber, and a south porch and priest’s room.

The 14th or 15th century west tower has two stages with a plinth, diagonal stepped buttresses, a 19th-century small west door, a west window, a south-west stair, four 2-light bell openings with hood moulds and label stops, gargoyles, and battlements. The nave arch has moulding and a hollow chamfer above hollow chamfered polygonal responds. A north arcade from around 1280 consists of four bays with double chamfered arches resting on octagonal piers and responds. A low stone screen with blank ogee-headed and cusped arcading remains across one bay, representing the original north chapel. A similar two-bay south arcade has a low screen across both bays, with an oak door; a wrought iron screen sits above. The Perpendicular clerestory features four 2-light flat-topped windows on each side. The roof, a low-pitch tie beam structure, was renewed in the 20th century following a fire.

The north aisle, added in 1842, includes a north porch and a blocked door, with seven windows containing reticulated tracery; the seventh window is open to the later 19th-century north chancel organ chamber, and the others are filled with 19th and early 20th century stained glass, one by Percy Bacon of London in 1907. The aisle roof has curved braces and wall pieces springing from stone corbels. A small piscina with a cusped arch remains by the east arcade respond from the former north chapel. A double chamfered chancel arch leads into the chancel, which has a 19th-century stained glass window on the north side, a Perpendicular east window with stained glass from 1862, and two south windows with 19th-century stained glass, one low side window incorporating a squint from Farnham Chapel within its frame. A piscina with an ogee-headed arch and a small south door are also present.

The Farnham Chapel, porch, and priest’s room, dating from around 1280, are under a single roof with stepped and angle buttresses. It features an east window with reticulated tracery and two south windows with Y tracery, along with 19th-century stained glass and a small 19th-century south door. The chapel has a boarded roof. Inside, four incised slabs from the earlier 16th century are displayed, alongside a hanging monument to Thomas Farnham, who died in 1574, and his family, featuring kneeling high relief figures under a two-bay classical arcade. A double monument commemorates John Farnham, who died in 1587, and his wife, with two recumbent effigies on an ornamental tomb-chest, a relief depicting a military encampment, and a near-full relief figure of a soldier.

The church is described as "outstandingly good" and attributed to Epiphanius Evesham. Further monuments date from the mid-19th century and Percy Bacon, 1817. A 12th-century south doorway has spiral-fluted shafts and zigzag in the arch, while the porch has two bays of single-chamfered rib-vaulting. A Perpendicular octagonal font, a 19th-century brass lectern, and 18th and 19th-century wall monuments are located in the chancel. The Farnham Chapel is under the separate ownership of the Farnham family, who have resided in Quorn since approximately 1260.