Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade II* listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 February 1967. Church.
Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- former-chapel-jet
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Staffordshire Moorlands MP: Dame Karen Bradley (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Bartholomew, Church Street, Longnor, Staffordshire Moorlands
- OS grid reference
- SK 088 649
- Coordinates
- 53.1819, -1.86859
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Bartholomew is a parish church built around 1781 on an earlier site. It features coursed stone and ashlar facings with a blue slate roof and verge parapets. The structure includes a tower, nave, and chancel all in one. The tower has four stages, with raised chamfered quoins and bands between the stages, topped by a block crenellated parapet and pinnacles. It has single-light, round-arched, block-dressed windows, with 'Y' tracery and stone louvres in the bell chamber, a blind arched window in the middle stage, and a round-arched west door with a rusticated surround and double doors.
The nave consists of five bays and features two tiers of round-arched windows, with quoins and bands at the cill and springing levels of both tiers, as well as moulded eaves and a blocking course. The windows have fixed small-pane lights with moulded arched heads and keystones, and the upper level windows are smaller. The centre window on the south side was formerly an entrance. The east end has rough-faced masonry and a Serlian window with a round arch above it.
Inside, the tower porch leads to the nave, which has no aisles and incorporates the chancel, with a plain ceiling. There is a break-fronted gallery supported by turned columns, and a Serlian east window set in an arched rebate, with radial foliage plasterwork above. The pulpit, dating from the 19th century, is made of pine and is boarded. The font, which is of chalice shape and made from gritstone, dates back to the 12th century or earlier and features rough carved low-relief figures and faces within shields. A Georgian coat of arms is fixed to the gallery in a swan-necked frame.
Local climate
Church of St Bartholomew sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 32 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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