Architectural Features
C15 west tower.
Finely carved label stops.
Steps to crypt in north wall with carved head label stops to entrance which has original door with decorative ironwork.
Restored C15 chancel screen.
C15 aisle. roofs with roll-moulded wall plates, principal rafters and butt purlins.
Impressive 3-decker pulpit of C15, C17 and C18 dates.
St Bartholomew's church is a large building with a soaring tower and high chancel arches > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859350 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859352 - http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859367. Restored during the 19th century, the church has plain modern roofs but several of the arcade pillars retain traces of their original paint, dating from the 14th century, as do the wall paintings depicting St Christopher, St Bartholomew and St Andrew. The church has a Jacobean three-decker pulpit (seen here). There are a number of C16 benches > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859365 with poppyheads and animal carvings; the restored rood screen dates from the 15th century, as does the octagonal font > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859372. There is a C16 brass > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859359 to a priest, John Athorne, on the chancel floor. Steps lead down to an undercroft > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/859375 below the sanctuary, which might once have been served as a crypt or a treasury but in later days was used to hold overnight prisoners on their way from King's Lynn to Norwich. The church is open every day. For more information see: http://www.norfolkchurches.co.uk/brisley/brisley.htm
C15 top storey - hexagonal with blind traceried panels
Linenfold panelling to front pew south probably C16.
Fragments of wall painting include 2 Saint Christophers and a consecration cross.
TF9521 : Brisley, St. Bartholomew's Church: Fragment of wall painting on the north wall 3