Description

SHIPMEADOW HIGH ROAD
TM 38 NE
4/45 Church of St. Bartholomew
1-9-53
- II*
Parish church, disused at the time of survey (May 1985). Medieval, with early
C16 tower; restored 1851. Nave, chancel, west tower, north porch, south
vestry. The nave and chancel are of flint rubble, plastered, with stone
dressings. Flint and brick tower; rendered brick porch. Plaintiled roofs.
Square tower, with 3-stage diagonal buttresses to the west face and angle
buttresses against the north and south faces on the east side; flat parapet.
Rectangular belfry openings without tracery. The fabric of the nave is
largely C12: one original window remains on the north side; various later
windows, mostly restored. Later C15 nave doorway. Early C14 chancel, the
walls subsequently raised, probably in C19: various Y-traceried windows, one
to the north with an enriched hood mould, one to the south blocked by the
vestry but visible internally. 3-light east window with reticulated tracery,
probably C19. Interior. C19 coupled rafter nave roof in 4 bays with scissor-
bracing to the principal trusses. Chancel roof also C19. Blocked doorway in
south chancel wall. On each side of the chancel at the entrance to the
sanctuary is a pierced stone corbel, said to have been used for supporting the
Lenten veil. C15 carved octagonal font. The rood screen has a C15 dado with
traceried panels, some of the tracery renewed; the upper part of the screen is
C19. The other furnishings are C19.

Listing NGR: TM3820289981

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17546736

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Recommended Books

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  For the Record
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)