Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II* listed building in the West Suffolk local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 July 1955. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- swift-spindle-vetch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- West Suffolk MP: Nick Timothy (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 July 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Bartholomew, the Street, Ingham
- OS grid reference
- TL 855 705
- Coordinates
- 52.30171, 0.71957
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Bartholomew is a parish church dating back to the 14th century and earlier, with substantial restoration work carried out in 1861. The church is primarily constructed of flint with freestone dressings, and has plaintiled roofs decorated with diaper patterns formed from black tiles.
The west tower is composed of four stages, built on a base featuring narrow flushwork panels decorated with trefoil heads. It incorporates a high, plain embattled parapet and stone-faced diagonal buttresses. A simple early 14th-century west doorway is present, above which is a large three-light window with reticulated tracery, and four two-light windows with cusped plate tracery to the top stage. The south porch was rebuilt in 1861 by the Rev. E.R. Benyon and serves as a vestry, containing fragments of medieval stained glass within its two windows. All other windows have clear glass. The damaged 14th-century south doorway features a single order of nook shafts.
The nave has two-tier stone-faced buttresses and two three-light windows in the Decorated style on each wall. The wide chancel was rebuilt in the 19th century, using kidney flint facing, with two-light windows, angle buttresses and a five-light east window in the Perpendicular style.
Internally, the tower's interior forms part of the nave, incorporating a high arch that replaced the original internal wall. The nave roof is boarded with an embattled cornice. The church contains 19th-century benches and a pulpit. Two doors lead to the rood stair in the northeast corner, with a wide lodge projecting from the chancel arch in front of the upper door, providing access to the rood loft. A high 19th-century chancel arch has replaced the original. The roof is a three-bay arch-braced collar roof, with carved windbraces to the purlins, which may be from an earlier roof. A plain, square font dating from the late 12th century stands at the west end of the nave; it has unusual, waterleaf-shaped moulded bases to the angles. Four 15th-century poppyhead bench ends have survived. While significantly restored in 1861, the church was not entirely rebuilt, as noted by Nikolaus Pevsner.
Local climate
Church of St Bartholomew sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 54% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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