Church of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a parish church built in 1863 by J.A. Picton in the Early Decorated style, replacing an earlier church that is now in ruins and listed separately. The building is constructed of flint with Bath stone dressings and features a fishscale tiled roof adorned with decorative ridge tiles. It has a five-bay nave, an aspidal chancel, a west tower topped with a broached spire, and a gabled porch entry on the south side at the west end. The walls are buttressed, with diagonal buttresses on the chancel and tower. The windows are two-light with reticulated tracery. The tower is divided into three stages, featuring a three-light traceried window on the west front, two-light traceried windows on the second stage, and two-light openings with boarded infill at the bell-stage.

Inside, the church contains fittings and monuments from the old church, including 18th-century turned baluster altar rails and a wooden vase-shaped font. Notable glass includes a window featuring the Head of Aaron, created in 1744 by John Rowell of Reading, located in the south single light window in the nave, second bay from the west end. The remaining stained glass in the chancel and four nave windows is from the 19th century.

Monuments within the church include one in the north aisle dedicated to Sir William Standen, who died in 1639, and his wife Mary Backhouse of Swallowfield. This features two recumbent alabaster effigies on a black marble altar top, with a small daughter at their feet, leaning on a stall and holding a cartouche of arms. The south side of this monument has four Doric columns supporting a top with panels in between, featuring a coat of arms on the outer panels and an inscription in the center. On the west wall is a monument to Edwardus Standen, dated 1750, which includes an inscription panel flanked by fluted pilasters supporting a cornice that is broken forward over the pilasters, with flanking urns and a central cartouche of arms. Additionally, there is a small brass memorial for Thomas Howard, dated 1643, above two incised slate tablets; one commemorates the wife of Rev. H. Hodgekinson from 1804, and the other honors the Reverend Henry Hodgekinson, who passed away in 1839.