St Bartholomew

south doorway in second bay from left with moulded arch and two C15 boarded doors

Chancel: three bays, three-light south windows with panelled tracery, four-centred moulded-arched doorway beneath centre window with square head, and carved spandrels

one with C20 figure.

double chamfered arches at east end of aisles and crossing, five bay C15 nave roof with carved corbels supporting cambered ties, moulded beams, and carved bosses

C15 lean-to aisle roofs

five-bay C15 chancel roof

south (Vernon) chapel: moulded ogee-arched doorway with finial and four-centred boarded door, fan vault with shafts and carved pendants, altar slab, piscina, aumbry, and inscription and remains of painted crucifixion on east wall.

Fittings: parish chest dated 1625, carved coat of arms of 1814 in north aisle

C15 octagonal stone font with large stepped base, and carved trefoiled sides with shields

The view of the octagonal font inside St Bartholomew's Church, Tong.

© Gordon Griffiths

octagonal wooden pulpit dated 1629 with two tiers of arched panels, turned stem, and stairs with turned balusters

C15 north and south aisle screens of five bays with traceried lower panels, ogee lights with open panelled tracery, carved figures, and cresting

C15 chancel screen of nine bays with traceried lower panels, ogee lights with open panelled tracery, carved friezes and cresting

C15 chancel stalls with three-light traceried back panels, carved frieze, cresting, carved misericords, and desks with traceried panels and ends, and carved poppy-heads

A C15 misericord of the choir stalls. Probably one of the most impressive carvings, representative of the Annunciation and Crucifixion. The centre-piece is the Angel Gabriel and Virgin Mary either side of Christ on the Cross rising from a lily.

© Mike Searle

Stained glass: C15 in west window, with figures

Exceptional series of monuments including: panel from a tomb chest on north wall with carved angel holding shield

C13 incised slab to priest in north transept

Sir Fulke and Lady Elizabeth de Pembruge (founders of the college) of 1408-47, alabaster chest tomb with two recumbant effigies and sides with single and double tiers of alternating arches

Sir Richard Vernon and wife of 1451, alabaster chest tomb with two recumbent effigies and sides with alternating saints and angels in canopied niches

Sir William Vernon and wife of 1467, chest tomb with two brasses and sides with carved quatrefoil panels

Ralph Elcott of 1510, brass of priest in south aisle wall

Sir Harry Vernon of 1515, chest tomb between south transept and Vernon chapel in panelled elliptical arch with canopied niches, chest tomb with two effigies, and sides with alternating angels and shields

Arthur Vernon, M. A. Cantab, of 1517, brass on floor of Vernon chapel, and canopied niche in the west wall with demi figure holding pen

Richard Vernon and wife of 1517, alabaster chest tomb with two effigies and sides with alternating angels and bedesmen

Humphrey Vernon and wife of 1542, incised slab on plain chest tomb

Mrs. Wylde of 1624, kneeling figure on west wall of chancel

Sir Edward Stanley of 1632 and his parents Sir Thomas Stanley and Margaret Vernon, two tier table tomb with effigy of Edward below and black columns supporting top tier with effigies of parents and obelisks at corners

Elizabeth Pierrepont of 1696, relief portrait in medallion on north wall of chancel

St. Bartholomew's Church was largely re-built after the founding of a chantry college here in 1410 by Elizabeth de Pembruge