Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a parish church dating back to the medieval period. It is constructed of flint with iron-bound conglomerate, stone, and brick dressings, with lead and slate roofs. The church comprises a west tower, nave, south aisle, north porch, and chancel.

The three-stage west tower features diagonal buttresses. A C19 three-light window is set into the west face. An external stone staircase leads to the south-east corner. The ringing chamber has square openings, and the bell-openings are two-light Perpendicular windows set within four-centred arches. There are gargoyles and a parapet with finials at the corners.

The south aisle is buttressed across four bays and features four late medieval three-light windows with four-centred arches and hood moulds. A small chamfered doorway is set between the first and second bays, also with a hood mould. A lead roof covers the aisle. The clerestory has eight two-light windows with alternating brick and flint voussoirs.

The north nave has three bays with two three-light windows featuring panel tracery. The unbuttressed chancel has three blocked windows on the north side; one has a round-headed form in conglomerate, flanked by two later openings, one retaining remains of cusped tracery. The eaves have been raised. A restored Y-tracery window, a partly-blocked square-headed three-light traceried window, and a C19 vestry with brick dressings are found on the south side. The east window is of three lights, restored, with reticulated tracery.

The unbuttressed north porch has stone quoins on the north-west corner, with the remainder of the quoins brick, likely dating to the 16th century. A wooden barge board adorns the gable, and the outer arch is rendered. The nave doorway is chamfered, with an arch featuring hollows and rolls, and a wave-moulded hood mould.

Inside, a four-bay arcade has octagonal piers and abaci. The roof is arch-braced with a castellated wall-plate and an angel to one boss. The aisle roof is also arch-braced. A cusped piscina is located under a square hood mould in the south aisle. The tower arch has an attached shaft rising to form a continuous moulding to the arch; the inner arch orders are restored. The chancel arch has been hacked, with traces of a rood stair visible. A lancet piscina and a depressed ogee sedilia with a drop seat are also present. Blocked north window tracery is visible. The arms of Queen Anne are positioned above the chancel arch. Ledger slabs commemorate members of the Doughty family from 1667, 1673, 1698, and 1742. A plain octagonal font sits on octagonal shafts. A box pew is located to the west of the south aisle, with a wooden canopy and a memorial urn dating to 1766 above.