Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a parish church that was rebuilt in 1850 by architect William Butterfield, with a tower added in 1915. The building is constructed of coursed stone and ashlar, featuring freestone dressings and slate roofs, and is designed in the Decorated style. It includes a nave, chancel, north and south aisles, north and south transepts, a south porch, and a later west tower. The church has decorated windows with rectilinear, intersecting, and foiled tracery, and buttresses with set-offs. The 1915 west tower is notable for its three stages, pinnacles, and battlements.

While the exterior may appear unremarkable, the interior is striking, with walls featuring bands of black marble that follow the lines of the window arches and arcades. The chancel displays a diaper pattern and polychromatic friezes, with a smaller arch set within the chancel arch also showcasing a polychromatic diaper pattern. The octagonal arcade piers are adorned with bands of dark and light marble, and the aisle walls include inscriptions in circular frames. The chancel roof is boarded and painted, with ribs supported on corbel heads. The nave and aisle roofs are unceiled wooden barrel vaults, while the transepts feature scissor braces.

The church contains contemporary furnishings, including seating, an altar rail, a tower screen, a pulpit, and a lectern, as well as an alabaster screen for the choir and an alabaster font. There is also a disused Norman font bowl decorated with low relief wavy lines. Monuments from the old church include a brass to Sir John Crocker in armor from 1508, a tomb chest for Mary Coppleston from 1630 with kneeling figures in an arched recess, and mural monuments to the Bastard family, including Thomas Veale Bastard from 1732, and Edmund and Baldwin Pollexfen from 1773, along with a bust of Thomas Veale from 1782.