Church Of St Barnabas

The Church of St Barnabas is a church located in Peasemore, with the base of the tower dating from around 1737, the main body constructed around 1842, and the chancel added in 1866 by G. Street. The church is built of grey brick with stone dressings, a red brick base for the tower, and features a stone spire, all topped with plain tiled roofs.

The church includes a nave and a chancel with a north porch. Notable architectural features include a plinth, a moulded string at the cill on the chancel, stepped buttresses, gable parapets, a crenellated tower, and a spire. On the north elevation, the left side features a two-bay chancel with windows that have two-centred arched heads and flowing tracery. The nave consists of four bays with tall two-light windows under two-centred arched heads, also with flowing and decorated tracery. The porch, located in the third bay from the left, has a recessed two-centred arched doorway. To the right is the tower, which has three stages, angle buttresses, and a half-octagonal stair turret. The top stage contains a two-light louvre with a two-centred arch above it, and the octagonal spire features gabled louvres on its main compass point faces, topped with a weathercock.

Inside, the church is plastered, with the nave featuring four bays and a moulded hammer beam roof supported by stone angel corbels. The chancel arch is a two-centred moulded arch on grouped columns with leaf caps. The chancel has a two-bay timber barrel vault roof, a piscina and sedilia on the south wall, and a two-centred arch leading to the south transept that encloses the organ. There is a carved stone reredos by Earp, and a 17th-century carved timber altar frontal depicting the Descent from the Cross, the Last Supper, the Adoration of the Magi, and the Resurrection.