Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a disused parish church located on Shipmeadow High Road. It dates back to the medieval period, with an early 16th-century tower and restoration completed in 1851. The church features a nave, chancel, west tower, north porch, and south vestry. The nave and chancel are constructed of flint rubble with plaster and stone dressings, while the tower is made of flint and brick, and the porch is rendered brick. The roofs are covered with plain tiles.

The square tower has three-stage diagonal buttresses on the west face and angle buttresses on the north and south faces of the east side, topped with a flat parapet. The belfry openings are rectangular and lack tracery. The nave's fabric is largely from the 12th century, with one original window remaining on the north side and various later windows, most of which have been restored. There is a later 15th-century doorway in the nave. The early 14th-century chancel has had its walls raised, likely in the 19th century, and features several Y-traceried windows, including one to the north with an enriched hood mould and another to the south that is blocked by the vestry but still visible from inside. The east window is a three-light design with reticulated tracery, probably from the 19th century.

Inside, the nave has a 19th-century coupled rafter roof in four bays, with scissor-bracing on the principal trusses, while the chancel roof is also from the 19th century. There is a blocked doorway in the south wall of the chancel. On either side of the chancel entrance to the sanctuary, there are pierced stone corbels that were said to have supported the Lenten veil. The church contains a 15th-century carved octagonal font, and the rood screen features a 15th-century dado with traceried panels, some of which have been renewed, while the upper part of the screen is from the 19th century. Other furnishings within the church are also from the 19th century.