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St Bartholomew

Stourport-on-Severn

Worcestershire

Norman, C14, C15 and C18 remains

Architectural Features

Norman masonry in chancel

3-stage south tower, first stage and lower courses of second stage are C14, upper courses of second stage

third stage are C15.

2 oval memorial stones with no visible inscription to each side of window.

Small round arched C12 window in south wall of chancel.

INTERIOR faced with red sandstone in 1885-6, though a section of the medieval wall material survives around the south doorway.

Early font base with cable decoration, the bowl itself a C19 replacement in a similar style.

Carved wooden eagle lectern.

Late C19 polygonal pulpit and seating.

Royal Arms and hatchment in north aisle.

Some late C18 and early C19 memorials around south doorway: a marble tablet with engaged shafts and funerary urn commemorates Mary and John Adams, erected 1783, and a simple inscribed slab surmounted byan urn commemorates Betty and John Benbow, d1805 and 1820.

In the chancel, the memorial for John Zachary, d1802 is an inscribed marble slab surmounted by a wide obelisk bearing crest and arms.