Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a parish church with origins in the 12th century, extended in the late 13th century, and largely rebuilt in 1880 by Thomas Nicholson. It is constructed of sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, and has a slate roof with decorative ridge tiles, a parapet with kneelers at the west end, and a wrought iron cross finial at the east end of the ridge. The bell tower has a shingle roof.

The church comprises a west tower, a continuous three-bay nave, and a single-bay chancel with a south porch to the nave. The west tower, largely of the late 13th century, has a 19th-century upper section and spire. The lower stage features a late 13th-century cusped lancet in its west elevation. The belfry stage has rectangular louvred bell chamber openings on the north and west sides, and a clock face on the south side. A shallow pyramidal roof sits at the base of a short octagonal spire, topped with a weathervane. The nave and chancel were largely rebuilt in 1880, although some 12th-century masonry survives, particularly in the north wall and at the base of the south wall. The north elevation displays traces of two small blocked window openings and a 19th-century nave window of three lights with a square head and a hoodmould on head stops. The south elevation features a buttress with offsets separating the nave and chancel, and a similar two-light and three-light nave window, and a two-light chancel window mirroring the north nave window. Buttresses with offsets flank the three-light east window, which has a two-centred arched head and a hoodmould with head stops.

The 19th-century, gabled, timber-framed south porch stands on an ashlar base. An archway with a chamfered pointed arch is set within, and above is a tie-beam truss with struts and glazed panels. The side elevations have three lower boarded panels, and above, a glazed mullioned window of eight lights. A simple pointed archway of two chamfered orders forms the south doorway.

Inside, the tower has a chamfered pointed arch. The 19th-century nave roof employs two moulded arch-braced collar trusses on head corbels with subsidiary moulded tie-beams, as well as a moulded arch-braced collar and tie-beam truss with raking struts. The arch braces are pierced with quatrefoils and trefoils. The chancel has a 20th-century wagon roof. Church furnishings include a 19th-century panelled reredos, an early 17th-century altar table with turned legs and moulded rails, an early 19th-century mahogany and-brass organ case by J C Bishop, a mid-17th-century parish chest with a panelled front and carved top rail, and a 19th-century octagonal stone front and three-sided timber pulpit. A bench in the tower incorporates some 17th-century panelling. The chancel holds two memorials to the Evans family, one late 18th-century with an entablature and urn, the other early 19th-century. A memorial to Thomas Deykin, who died in 1833, is situated on the west wall of the nave. The east window contains stained glass by W Done of Done and Davies, of Shrewsbury, dated 1880.