Church Of St Bartholomew

SANDWELL MB CHURCH HILL SO 9895 SE Wednesbury 11/57 Church of St Bartholomew 2.3.50 II

Church. Circa 1827 with C14 remains, altered and extended by Basil Champneys 1890 and later. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Comprises a west tower with spire, nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, porches and chapels, and lower chancel with three-sided apse. The tower has diagonal buttresses and a stone spire set back behind an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The west doorway is moulded with pointed head. Above is a window of two cinque- foiled lights with Perpendicular tracery. The bell openings are each of two trefoiled ogee lights under a pointed head with quatrefoil. The upper stage of the tower has a clock face on each side. The nave and aisles have embattled parapets and are of three bays. Their windows, including their west windows, are of three lights with transom, with pointed heads and cusped intersecting tracery. The south porch has angle buttresses and a doorway with elliptical moulded arch. The north porch has diagonal buttresses and a moulded Tudor- arched doorway. The clerestory windows have cusped intersecting tracery. The north and south chapels are each of two bays and have 4-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. The foundation stone of the north chapel is dated "1901" and the south chapel "1903". The chancel east window is of five lights with Perpendicular tracery. Interior: five-bay nave arcades of pointed arches spring- ing from tall octagonal piers. Roof trusses have king-posts rising from cambered tie-beams, and some stencil decoration. The tower arch, said to be C14, of two chamfered orders dying into the responds. The chancel has a ribbed ceiling with bosses and stencil decoration. The pulpit, with blank arches, is dated "1611". Sixteen windows contain glass of late C19 and early C20 date by Kempe. At the west end of the nave is a table tomb with recumbent effigies of Richard Parkes a (died 1618) and his wife. (BoE, p 298).

Listing NGR: SO9871895344