Parish Church Of Saint Bartholomew

The Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew has origins dating back to the 12th century, with alterations and expansions made in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. The church underwent restoration, and the chancel was largely rebuilt in the 19th century. It features walls made of stone and flint, with tiled roofs, some of which have stone eaves courses. The structure includes a nave, chancel, west tower, south porch, and a north chapel with an additional porch.

The 14th-century tower is constructed from banded ironstone and flint and has a plain parapet. The belfry contains two-light windows adorned with Perpendicular tracery. The north porch, dating from the 16th century, features a gable with a parapet and semi-circular outer and inner arches, along with a collar-rafter roof from the same period. The north chapel, originally from the 15th century, was extended eastward in the 16th century and has stone and flint walls supported by brick buttresses. It contains two three-light square-headed windows, one of which is traceried, and a small blocked rectangular opening below it. A shouldered arched doorway appears to be a 19th-century renewal. The east wall of the chapel features a 16th-century three-light window.

The south porch, dating from the 14th century, has a gable with a parapet and moulded coping, along with a moulded Gothic arch. The south wall of the nave, also from the 14th century, is made of stone and flint and has two two-light square-headed windows with ogee tracery, as well as one single-light ogee-headed window.

Internally, the north chapel is separated from the nave by a two-bay arcade with a square central pier. The west arch is semi-circular and dates from the 12th century, while the east arch, from the 16th century, has a panelled soffit. The chancel arch is from the 18th century, and there is a 16th-century arch with a panelled soffit between the chancel and chapel, with the rest of the chancel dating to the 19th century. The chancel roof is a plastered barrel vault from the 19th century, while the nave features a straight-sided barrel roof of pine from the same period. The north chapel has a 16th-century plastered barrel roof with moulded timber nibs.

In the chapel, there is a late 15th-century tomb recess that contains a 17th-century table tomb, along with a notable 17th-century wall monument. Several 18th-century wall monuments can also be found in the nave and chancel. The font, dating from the late 12th century, is octagonal with round-arched panelling and sits on a circular base with corner shafts. The seating in the nave includes some 16th-century bench ends. The north chapel is believed to have belonged to a local Priory.