Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II listed building in the Sandwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 March 1950. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Bartholomew

WRENN ID
muted-grate-lichen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Sandwell
Constituency
Tipton and Wednesbury MP: Antonia Bance (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
2 March 1950
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Bartholomew, Church Hill
OS grid reference
SO 987 953
Coordinates
52.55595, -2.02034
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Bartholomew is a building dating to circa 1827, incorporating remains from the 14th century, and significantly altered and extended in 1890 by Basil Champneys, with later modifications. It is constructed of sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. The church comprises a west tower with a spire, a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, porches, and chapels, and a lower chancel with a three-sided apse.

The tower features diagonal buttresses and a stone spire set back behind an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The west doorway is moulded with a pointed head, above which 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, with three-light windows featuring pointed heads and cusped intersecting tracery. The south porch has angle buttresses and an elliptical moulded arch doorway, while 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 with four-light windows containing Perpendicular tracery; foundation stones are dated 1901 and 1903 respectively. The chancel east window is of five lights with Perpendicular tracery.

Inside, the nave arcades have pointed arches springing from tall octagonal piers. Roof trusses have king-posts rising from cambered tie-beams, with some stencil decoration. The tower arch, purported to be from the 14th century, is of two chamfered orders dying into the responds. The chancel has a ribbed ceiling with bosses and stencil decoration, and contains a pulpit dated 1611. Sixteen windows contain glass from the late 19th and early 20th centuries by Kempe. A table tomb is located at the west end of the nave, bearing recumbent effigies of Richard Parkes and his wife (died 1618).

Local climate

Church of St Bartholomew receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 56% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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