Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St. Bartholomew is a Grade I listed building located on Church Road in Horley. It dates back to the 14th century and was restored in 1881 by architect A.W. Blomfield, with a south aisle added in 1901. The church features a rendered exterior with dressed stone on the north porch, plain tiled roofs with ridge cresting, and a wood-shingled bell turret and spire at the northwest. The structure includes an aisled nave with porches on the north and west sides, a chancel to the east, a chapel to the south, a vestry to the south, and the bell turret located in the west bay of the north aisle. Quoined buttresses support the aisles, with diagonal buttresses at the west end. The west end has three gables and two 19th-century Perpendicular style windows for the nave and south aisle. The north aisle windows feature renewed 14th-century "Kentish style" tracery, and the north door is a 14th-century design with a delicate double shaft surround.

Inside, the church has a four-bay nave arcade with 14th-century octagonal piers on the north side. The nave roof is supported by crown posts and is separated from the chancel by a billeted tie beam. Tower posts are set into the west bay of the north aisle, and there is a corbelled arch on the south chancel wall.

Notable fittings include an early 20th-century rood screen across the west wall, 20th-century pews, and an arcaded pulpit. The early 20th-century marble font features a square bowl on a central stem.

Monuments within the church include a brass memorial to Joan Fenner, who died in 1517, and a female figure from around 1400 under an ogee canopy, which has been borrowed from another monument. There is also a brass commemorating an unnamed man, possibly John Fenner, and a tablet on the north chancel wall honoring William Brown, who served as Vicar from 1561 to 1611. This stone tablet has a roll-moulded edge and records three generations of his family. In the north aisle chapel, there is a monument to a member of the Salaman family, featuring an early 14th-century life-size stone knight in armor reclining with his head on a cushion and feet on a lion, situated on a chest tomb under an arched canopy.

Additionally, traces of wall painting depicting a Madonna with a lily can be seen on the eastern column of the north aisle arcade, reflecting the church's original dedication to St. Mary the Virgin before it was changed at the Reformation.