Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is a building of the 12th and 14th centuries, substantially rebuilt around 1620 and restored in 1870. It is constructed of coursed squared limestone with a slate roof to the nave and plain-tile roofs to the chancel and tower. The church comprises a chancel, nave, and a west tower.

The three-bay chancel features a three-light east window with curvilinear tracery and ogee-arched heads to the lights, along with a hood mould. A pair of two-light windows with straight heads and Decorated tracery are located to the south, and a small, blocked rectangular window is situated below the southwest window, featuring a chamfered stone surround. A round-arched priest's door with a hood mould and label stops is present on the south side, accompanied by diagonal offset buttresses, two offset buttresses to the north, and a chamfered plinth to the east end. The three-bay nave has three-light arched mullion windows with cut spandrels and hood moulds, except for a similar two-light window to the west of the south door. A south doorway with a chamfer, Tudor-arched head, cut spandrels, hood mould and plank door is present, with a similar doorway to the north. Stone bracket water-spouts are positioned at the west end either side of the tower. The building features a chamfered plinth and a plain parapet with a moulded string to its base and a shield in the middle of the south side of the parapet, with initials in a rectangular wave-moulded surround. A finial sits atop the east gable.

The two-stage tower is partially integrated within the west end of the nave, containing a three-light window to the west, similar to those of the nave, and corresponding bell-chamber openings. It has a wave-moulded plinth, diagonal offset buttresses, a string, and a moulded string to the base of a battlemented parapet. The parapet includes a pair of water-spouts to the west resembling urns and a pyramidal roof.

Inside the chancel, image brackets are situated either side of the east window, alongside a pointed trefoil-headed piscina, a double sunk quadrant moulded tomb recess to the north side, and a blocked window to the north-west with a pointed trefoil head. The chancel features a two-bay roof with a cambered tie beam, although the remainder is concealed by a plastered ceiling. The double-chamfered chancel and tower arches feature a continuous chamfer outermost and polygonal responds innermost, with chamfered bases and moulded capitals. The nave incorporates a three-bay roof with a many-moulded wall plate, moulded tie beams to principal rafters, moulded purlins and ridge piece, king posts and ogee-stop-chamfered rafters. A small 17th century octagonal stone font is also present.

The church was rebuilt at the expense of Sir Robert Banastre of Passenham, who acquired the Manor of Furtho in 1625.