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Former Church Of St Bartholomew (coe)

Buntingford

Hertfordshire

Chancel early C13, very thick nave walls suggest an early origin but C15 details, West tower and porch early C15

Architectural Features

Flint rubble, with some Roman tiles and blue brick parapet repairs on North side,of nave, stone dressings, and roughcast on North and East walls

Steep old red tile chancel roof

Two lancets in South wall with priest's door under western one, and a large three-light C15 traceried window

Chancel arch widened in late C15 with moulded four-centred arch and shafted jambs

C15 grotesque face as bracket on South wall still with traces of paint

Aumbrey and piscina with C13 rebated jambs and shouldered arches in East and South walls

West tower has diagonal buttresses, newel stair in South East angle, C15 tower arch of three moulded orders with shafted jambs

Three-light C15 traceried West window

Monuments collected in chancel: John Crouch d 1605, a splended Derbyshire spar wall monument with paired Corinthian columns flanking black marble centre, in alabaster egg and dart frame under full entablature with raised central block with carved achievement and three carved seated figures, the middle one flanked by infants and holding a baby: Pike Crouch d1712 but monument c1756 signed I Wilton, a Neo-Classical urn in aedicule with skull in triangular pediment and impost with guttae all in white marble on grey marble ground

C15 or C16 oak reading desk carved with narrow cusped panels in two rows, the upper with narrow crocketed finials rising from bottom row

A medium sized medieval church of exceptional interest for its C13 chancel, ornate tower and monuments.

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