Church of St. Catherine Bearwood

The Church of St. Catherine in Bearwood is a parish church built in 1846 by J.H. Good, designed in an early Decorated style. It is constructed from Bath stone ashlar with tiled, coped gable roofs, the chancel having a lower roofline. The walls are buttressed and feature reticulated two-light windows. The church comprises a nave, chancel, a vestry on the north side, and a square bell tower on the west side, with a two-centred arched entrance and doors. Features include a moulded plinth, a lower moulded string course which is doubled on the tower, and coved and moulded eaves with regularly spaced carved faces depicting animal heads and leaf clusters.

The bell tower has two stages and four-sided buttresses angled at right angles, with a splayed stair tower on the south side adjoining the nave and rising to the height of the second stage's string course. The cornice detailing on the tower is similar to that of the nave.

Inside, the four-bay nave connects to a two-bay chancel with an arched braced collar roof, supported by two side purlins and thin wind braces that spring from slim engaged columns in the nave walls, featuring moulded heads and bases. Moulded plaster angels are positioned on top of the wall between the principal trusses, with those on the right-hand wall missing. A wooden pulpit features carved panels and cusped tracery heads. The stone font has trefoil panels and a moulded top. Stained glass windows are found in the chancel and above the organ gallery, created by Wailes.

A white marble tablet on the north wall of the chancel commemorates John Balston Walter, who drowned while attempting to rescue his brother and cousin from a frozen lake at Bear Wood on Christmas Eve 1870. The bottom portion of the tablet depicts the frozen lake in carved relief.