Church Of St Bartholomew

The Church of St Bartholomew is an Anglican parish church with significant fabric from the 15th century, 16th century, and early 19th century work to the nave, and a chancel rebuilt in 1848. It is constructed of ashlar and coursed and squared rubble, with coped verges, finials, and slate roofs. The architectural style is Perpendicular, with the chancel in an Early English style.

The church consists of a nave, chancel, north aisle, north vestry, south porch, and a west tower. The three-stage embattled tower features set-back buttresses connected across the angle with detached diagonally-placed pinnacles and corner pinnacles. It has a string below the parapet with gargoyles, an embattled parapet, triple-bell-chamber windows with Somerset tracery and flanking pinnacles, blank side windows, centre windows with stone grilles, single windows of the same style on the ringing-chamber stage with stone grilles, a polygonal stair-turret to the north, a crocketed niche to the west face with a figure, a 2:2 light west window with uncusped tracery and a label with carved heads as stops, and a west doorway with a moulded 4-centred head frame with a label and carved heads as stops, leading to paired plank doors.

The nave has a cornice and three bays with 2-light "Perpendicular" windows. A small gabled porch has a moulded 4-centred head floor opening and a plank door with elaborate hinges. The three-bay north aisle has a cornice, parapet, coping, and 2-light square-headed windows with small diamond-paned leaded lights. A low 19th-century vestry is attached to the north side. The buttressed chancel has a lancet to the south; the east window is a 3-light Perpendicular style.

The interior features tile and flagstone floors, a plastered barrel-ceiling in the nave with a cornice, a 19th-century cusped roof in the chancel, and a plastered ceiling in the aisle. A stone fanvault is present beneath the tower. A north arcade spans three bays, with piers of 4-hollows section, one capital featuring a demi-figure of an angel. There is a panelled tower arch, a 19th-century chancel arch, a Jacobean chair, an 18th-century pulpit, mid-19th century altar rails, choir stalls, pews, a font, and an organ; the font may incorporate earlier work. Numerous wall monuments, particularly to the Strode family from the 18th and 19th centuries, exist, along with a brass of 1617. Four painted canvas achievements are located under the tower, alongside a restored Jacobean bier and a pair of 18th/19th-century gates in the aisle. Additional furnishings include 18th/19th-century candelabra and four mid/late 19th-century stained-glass windows. Early 19th-century bells are also present.