Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the Stoke-on-Trent local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 October 1951. Church.

Church of St Bartholomew

WRENN ID
gilded-merlon-myrtle
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Stoke-on-Trent
Constituency
Stoke-on-Trent South MP: Dr Allison Gardner (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 October 1951
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Bartholomew, Church Road, City of Stoke-On-Trent
OS grid reference
SJ 898 418
Coordinates
52.97428, -2.15203
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Bartholomew is a parish church located in Blurton, Stoke on Trent. It was largely built in 1626, replacing an earlier structure from around 1500, with some later additions. The church is constructed from coursed and squared sandstone and features plain tiled roofs. It has a nave with two aisles and a chancel. A bellcote, added by George Gilbert Scott in 1846, is located at the western end of the nave. This bellcote is made of timber and includes pierced quatrefoil panels, topped with a shingle roof and a weather cock.

The south porch, possibly also added by Scott, features heavy timbering on a stone plinth. The inner doorway has a round-arched simple chamfered lintel. The nave contains two three-light hollow chamfered mullioned windows, and there are traces of earlier windows at a higher level that are now blocked. A sundial on the south wall is dated 1668 and bears the initials T.A. The chancel was added in 1750 and incorporates an earlier mullioned window in its south wall. It also has a moulded stone eaves cornice and a plinth that is interrupted in the southwest by a former doorway that is now blocked. The north aisle was added in 1867 by Charles Lynham, constructed of brick with stone facings on the east side and stone mullioned windows.

Local climate

Church of St Bartholomew receives an average of 840 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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