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

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