Church Of St Bartholomew

ASHPERTON CP CHURCH LANE SO 64 SW

5/16 Church of St Bartholomew

6.3.67

• II*

Parish church. Early C14, incorporating mid-C13 chancel arch of earlier building, late C18 west tower, and C19 south porch. Church restored 1840. Sandstone rubble, part rendered, slate roofs. West tower, nave with south porch and north and south transepts, chancel. West tower: three stages with clasping buttresses, upper string course and crenellated parapet; simple Y- tracery to vents of bell stage; south doorway in second stage with external stair. Nave: five bays; part restored single lights with ogee-heads flank gabled porch; 2-light window to gable end of south transept with trefoil- headed lights, similar window to north transept. Chancel: three bays; single ogee-headed light to west and 2-light window to east with trefoil-headed lights (similar to windows of north and south transepts); east end, 3-light traceried window with ovoid panel in render above. Interior: ceiled roof with mid-C16 moulded tie-beams; mid-C13 chancel arch of two orders with moulded captials and water-holding bases to responds of inner order, ogee-headed piscina in chancel and similar recesses in north side of east wall of nave and in south wall of south transept. Plain restored hemispherical font on cylindrical base to north of chancel arch, possibly C13 (formerly sited in churchyard), further mid-C19 font towards rear of nave. Monuments: Thomas Lord memorial dated 1652 on east wall of nave, wall tablet with trefoiled head; Wilson memorial, late C17 wall monument with short columns supporting open segmental pediment, inscription panel with folded ribbon detail to central oval panel, inscription illegible. Church is near moated site of former castle belonging to William de Grandison who obtained licence to crenellate in 1292. The earlier church on this site was possibly built as a Chapel of Ease close to the house. (RCHM, Vol II, p 2/3; Watkins, Duncomb's History of the County of Hereford, Hundred of Radlow, 1902, p 10 and 12).

Listing NGR: SO6425841493