Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a parish church dating back to the early 14th century. It incorporates a mid-13th century chancel arch from an earlier building, a late 18th century west tower, and a 19th century south porch. The church was restored in 1840. It is constructed from sandstone rubble, partly rendered, with slate roofs.

The west tower has three stages with clasping buttresses, an upper string course, and a crenellated parapet. Simple Y- tracery is visible in the vents of the bell stage. A south doorway is located in the second stage, accompanied by an external stair. The nave, with its south porch and north and south transepts, has five bays. Restored single lights with ogee heads flank the gabled porch, and a 2-light window is present at the gable end of the south transept, featuring trefoil-headed lights. A similar window is found in the north transept. The chancel has three bays with a single ogee-headed light to the west and a 2-light window to the east, also with trefoil-headed lights, resembling those in the transepts. The east end features a 3-light traceried window with an ovoid panel in the render above.

Inside, the church has a ceiled roof with mid-16th century moulded tie-beams. The mid-13th century chancel arch is double-ordered, with moulded capitals and water-holding bases to the responds of the inner order. A piscina with an ogee-headed head is in the chancel, and similar recesses are in the north side of the east wall of the nave and the south wall of the south transept. A plain, restored, hemispherical font sits on a cylindrical base to the north of the chancel arch; this is likely 13th century and was formerly sited in the churchyard. A further mid-19th century font is located towards the rear of the nave. Monuments include a Thomas Lord memorial dated 1652 on the east wall of the nave, featuring a wall tablet with a trefoiled head. The Wilson memorial is a late 17th century wall monument with short columns supporting a segmental pediment, above a central oval panel with folded ribbon detail; the inscription is illegible.

The church is situated near the moated site of a former castle belonging to William de Grandison, who obtained a licence to crenellate in 1292. The earlier church on this site was possibly built as a Chapel of Ease close to the house.