Church Of St Bartholomew

SK 10 SE HINTS C.P. SCHOOL LANE (west side) 10/42 Church of St. Bartholomew 27.2.64

GV II

Parish church. 1882-3 by John Oldrid Scott for Mr Chadwick, a cotton merchant. Yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings; tiled roofs with belfry rising at division of nave and chancel. Nave, south porch, chancel and vestry to north. Early English style and of a very compact nature. Nave of three bays buttressed at angles, lancets, paired to eastern bay with a string running at springing level; the west end has four lancets; steeply gabled porch with deeply moulded pointed arch on impost band. Chancel divided from nave by a stocky buttress (rising up to support the belfry), only marginally lower and nearly two thirds the length of the nave of three bays, banded at cill and springing and stepped-up to east bay; triple stepped lancets to east end; gabled vestry of one bay attached to north-west side. Interior: nave has a trussed rafter roof with a single King post truss to centre, pointed chancel arch and trussed rafter chancel roof. Pulpit: delicate low relief carving (three sides of an octagon) set on marble columns. Font set at west end; octagonal on clustered marble columns. Four plaques to the Lawley family 1779-1851 on the nave walls. B.O.E. p.148.

Listing NGR: SK1577602911