Church of St Bartholomew is a Grade I listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1955. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Bartholomew
- WRENN ID
- carved-wall-bone
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Constituency
- Wycombe MP: Emma Reynolds (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1955
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Bartholomew, Hambleden
- OS grid reference
- SU 776 911
- Coordinates
- 51.61382, -0.87964
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Bartholomew is a parish church with origins dating back to the early 12th century, featuring a west tower and nave. The chancel was added in the 13th century and includes 15th-century windows. The church has undergone restorations and the addition of a south porch in the mid-19th century. The exterior is finished in roughcast and render over flint, with stone dressings and tiled roofs.
The prominent west tower is wider than the nave and topped with a twin saddle-back roof from the 18th to early 19th century. Each side of the bell chamber features a pair of Romanesque openings with semi-circular roll-moulded arches of two orders on shafts with cushion capitals. Below these are small single lights with unmoulded semi-circular heads, and even smaller similar lights at the ground floor on the north and south sides. The west window, dating from the 13th century, is a three-light design made of chalk with plate tracery. The narrow nave contains a small original window with a semi-circular head on the north side, along with two later two-light traceried windows on the south. There is a blocked north doorway with a narrow chamfered pointed arch, and the south door features a similar arch within the 19th-century gabled wooden porch.
The chancel has two chamfered lancets on the north side, a three-light traceried east window, and two restored two-light traceried windows with flat heads on the south side. A central south door is also present, along with 19th-century buttresses.
Inside, the tower features a moulded arch on shafts leading to the inner face of the west window, and a tall wide unmoulded semi-circular arch leading into the nave. The nave itself has semi-circular rere-arches to the doorways and south windows, as well as a medieval roof of four bays with chamfered arch-braces to the collars and heavy simple wind-braces. There is a 19th-century wooden arch and screen leading to the chancel, and a reworked 15th-century octagonal font adorned with traceried panels. Other fittings within the church are from the 19th century.
Local climate
Church of St Bartholomew sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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