Chapel At St Bartholomew'S Priory Farm

The chapel at St Bartholomew's Priory Farm is an early 15th-century structure that now functions as an outbuilding. It is built from uncoursed flint rubble and features a gabled old tile roof. The chapel has a rectangular single-cell plan, with offset diagonal corner buttresses and an additional offset buttress at the center of its two-bay north and south elevations. Much of the window tracery has been lost, but the east window retains moulded Tudor-arched architraves and remnants of cusped Perpendicular tracery at the top. There are hood moulds with head stops above the moulded 2-centred arched windows on the north and south sides, which also show traces of cusped Perpendicular tracery. The south elevation includes an ancient studded door set within a moulded 2-centred architrave, while the west window features a moulded Tudor-arched architrave with 19th-century brick at the head. Inside, the chapel boasts a complete trussed rafter roof of uniform scantling, lacking longitudinal support. Historically, this chapel served the cell or grange of the Benedictine Westminster Abbey, which was present on this site from 1115 until 1538. There is also a 14th-century barn and a post-dissolution farmhouse on the property, while the prior's lodging was demolished in 1779.