St Bartholomew

Lower stage of tower and west end of nave are Saxon with clear long-and-short quoins.

Lower part of aisle walls have C12 or C13 masonry.

C14 window with cusped head in west end of south aisle.

One north aisle window with intersecting tracery is partly original C14.

Transepts have some C13 masonry in lower courses, largely rebuilt 1840 but in north transept one original window, with intersecting tracery, now opens into the vestry.

Interior: High round-headed Saxon tower arch with unmoulded imposts.

In north- east corner of nave part of blocked arch, probably C11.

South arcade C13 with octagonal piers and moulded capitals: double-chamfered pointed arches with dripstones rising from discs with rosettes.

Eastern pier has some large dogtooth at the springing of the arch, Western pier has broaches, responds have leafy carving.

North arcade is 1840 replacement of C12 arcade and is an exact copy of south arcade.

Chancel arch has C13 responds and arch of 1871.

C13 or C14 piscina in south transept.

Altar rails, choir stalls and pulpit by Hicks and Charleswood, probably of 1906.

East window has good unsigned glass of 1880.

6 hatchments to members of Ravensworth family.

Marble wall monument by Craigs, in north transept, to Reginald Goodenough, killed at Sebastapol

Monument to Reginald Goodenough, son of the vicar Robert Goodenough, who died at Sebastopol, aged 18. The blazon of: or a chevron gules between three guttees de sang [drops of blood] seems sadly appropriate.

© Bill Harrison