Church Of St Bartholomew And All Saints

The Church of St Bartholomew and All Saints is an Anglican parish church dating back to the 14th century, with significant 15th-century elements and a major restoration of 1869-71 by G. E. Street. Constructed from coursed rubble limestone, it is covered with a stone slate roof. The church comprises two parallel naves with independently roofed north aisle, a south porch, a chancel with a Lady chapel, an organ chamber, a north vestry, and a west tower.

The exterior features 3-light Perpendicular windows to the nave, topped by a parapet with numerous large gargoyles, all dating from the 15th century. The chancel has a circa 1300 3-light window with intersecting tracery, complemented by matching 19th-century windows. A 15th-century south priest's door is present. The two-story south porch has a 2-light square-headed window in the parvise and a sundial in the gable. The three-stage tower includes upper stages added by Street, featuring paired lancet windows, a crenellated parapet, and a rounded stair tower on the north, all under a slated pitched roof.

Inside, a 5-bay arcade is supported by circular columns and capitals. The south arcade, likely heightened in the 13th century, has a chamfered west respond. The arches exhibit hollow chamfers. A similar, but 19th-century, north arcade corresponds with the addition of the aisle. The nave roofs are 16th-century, featuring panelled and painted timber construction. The north aisle has an arch-braced principal rafter roof. The chancel and Lady chapel are topped with barrel and trussed rafter roofs. The porch boasts a lierne quadripartite vault resting on corbels with skewed shields. A small stoup is also present. The chancel features encaustic tiles and choir stalls. The pulpit is timber, dating from the 15th century, with tracery; it was altered in the 19th century, adding a plinth and brass rail to the steps. The font, designed by Street and carved by Earp, is a 19th-century diapered tub on clustered short columns. A brass lectern dates from 1876. Other interior features include a rood stair to the south nave arch, an open timber screen between the Lady chapel and chancel, a low stone screen to the chancel, a 5-gabled limestone reredos by Street with a marble relief of the Adoration by Earp of Lambeth, and stained glass windows in the chancel and Lady Chapel (1871) by Hardman, depicting the Tree of Jesse and Prophets. A Vowles organ from Bristol (1871) is housed within the church. The north aisle contains benefaction boards, including those of Charles Pynner (1619) and two from circa 1680, recognizing gifts such as crimson damask, the clock, and the Free School. A triptych of the commandments is displayed on the west wall of the nave. Other furnishings include a brass chandelier (1782), a houselling bench (circa 1700), two stools (circa 1700), and an 18th-century rectangular table with 22 twisted baluster legs. Monuments within the base of the tower commemorate Henry Wilson (1812), Mary Smith (1813), William Ind (1825), Thomas Mayriss (1825), Elizabeth Freak (1841, by Reeves of Bath), Francis King (1848, by Franklin), Charles Moreton Hunt (1855), and Bartholomew Horsell (1851) – all with Gothic detailing. A fragment of sculpture from between the 10th and 11th centuries, depicting a winged biting dragon and a possible tree of life, is located in the parvise.