Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew, located on London Road, is a Grade II listed Church of England building constructed in 1879. It is notable as Alfred Waterhouse's first and possibly only large-scale project in church architecture, designed in the Gothic style. The church features a five-bay aisled nave made of red brick with grey brick decoration, including a cross in the west gable and decorative bands. It has an ashlar plinth and recessed reveals, topped with a tiled roof.

The west front includes a central entrance with a stepped triplet in a pointed recess above, and a double belfry. A west porch, added later in 1920 by Sir Ninian Comper, features an ashlar ogee entrance flanked by shield panels depicting St Bartholomew's flaying knives and St Peter's keys, and is topped by a canopied niche with a statue of St Bartholomew.

Inside, the church has wide bay arcades supported by low columns. The interior's polychromy of brickwork, which was once exposed, is now obscured by whitewash. The roof is a tie beam structure. The three-bay aisled chancel, added between 1902 and 1905 by G F Bodley with Waterhouse's consent, features decorated windows and a panelled waggon roof.