Church Of Saint Bartholomew

The Church of Saint Bartholomew is a church that features a 16th-century tower, with the remainder of the building constructed in 1875 by J.B. and W. Atkinson. It is built of coursed stone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof. The structure includes a west tower, a nave with a north aisle and a south porch, and a chancel that has an organ chamber and vestry to the north.

The tower consists of three storeys with quoins. The west ground-floor window has two uncusped pointed lights beneath a hoodmould with headstops. There is a light vent on the south side of the ringing chamber and a clock on the west and south faces. The belfry openings on all sides have two trefoil-headed lights beneath hoodmoulds, and there is a string course and a gargoyle on the south side. The tower is topped with a battlemented parapet and corner pinnacles.

The porch features quoins and has a pointed doorway with continuous wave moulding and a label above. An old head is set above the doorway in a coped gable. The nave has quoins and a south doorway with continuous roll moulding. There are three windows with two cinquefoil-headed lights beneath hoodmoulds, and copings with a gable cross at the east end. The north aisle has three smaller windows that match those on the south side, along with a blocked flat-headed window in the west wall.

The chancel also has quoins and features two single-light windows, each with a cinquefoil head beneath hoodmoulds, and a gable cross at the east end. The east window is a three-light Perpendicular-style window. The vestry has a board door in a round-headed chamfered north doorway, and a single-light cinquefoil-headed window below a hoodmould with primitive head stops to the east. There is a decorative chimney, and the organ chamber has a single-light cinquefoil-headed north window below a hoodmould with small head stops.

Inside, the church has a three-bay north arcade, a chancel arch, and an organ-chamber arch, all in Perpendicular style. The 16th-century pointed tower arch is notable, and near the chancel arch are two old bells, believed to date from Saxon times and around 1300. At the west end, there is an early 18th-century altar table and a small 18th-century font in a wine-glass shape. A chamfered doorway leads to the vestry, which contains a stone with a Saxon cross-head, possibly a dedication stone.