Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a parish church built between 1882 and 1883 by John Oldrid Scott for Mr. Chadwick, a cotton merchant. It is constructed from yellow sandstone with red sandstone dressings and features tiled roofs, with a belfry positioned at the junction of the nave and chancel. The church has a nave, a south porch, a chancel, and a vestry to the north, all designed in an Early English style and exhibiting a compact form.

The nave consists of three bays that are buttressed at the corners, with lancet windows, including paired lancets in the eastern bay and four lancets at the west end. The steeply gabled porch has a deeply moulded pointed arch set on an impost band. The chancel is separated from the nave by a stout buttress that supports the belfry; it is slightly lower than the nave and nearly two-thirds its length, featuring banding at the cill and springing, and triple stepped lancets at the east end. A gabled vestry of one bay is attached to the north-west side.

Inside, the nave has a trussed rafter roof with a single King post truss at the center, and there is a pointed chancel arch along with a trussed rafter chancel roof. The pulpit features delicate low relief carving on three sides of an octagon, set on marble columns. An octagonal font is located at the west end, also on clustered marble columns. There are four plaques dedicated to the Lawley family, dating from 1779 to 1851, mounted on the walls of the nave.