Description

KIRBY MUXLOE MAIN STREET
SK 50 SW
4/41 Church of St Bartholomew
7.10.57
GV II*
Parish church. Early C13 with C14 and C15 alterations to tower. Very much
restored 1849 and 1857-8, with further restorations to tower 1891. Vestry/ organ
chamber added 1927. Granite and slate rubble with limestone dressings and some
ashlar facing to tower. Swithland slate roofs. Nave, south tower, chancel,
north vestry/organ chamber. C19 off-set buttresses and gable copings. Y-tracery
windows in double hollow-chamfered surrounds with hoodmoulds, all renewed C19.
Nave has 3-light west window with carved heads at stops and apex, 3 bays of 2-
light windows to north, and 2 similar windows to south. South tower is of 2
stages with moulded string and eaves, pyramidal roof and weathercock. Short
diagonal buttresses. Late C14-C15 bell-chamber with 2-light traceried openings
and single cusped ogee lights below. South door, through tower, has moulded
2-centred arch with hoodmould. Small C20 boiler room in south west angle between
tower and nave. Chancel has 2-light window to north, 2 more to south along with
a transomed low-side window and a blocked door, and 3-light east window. Vestry
is gabled to north and has matching windows and north door. Interior: C19 roofs,
that to nave with scissor trusses on carved foliage corbels; double-chamfered
chancel arch with inner order on semi-octagonal piers; small arched niche in
south wall of nave; small arched piscina in chancel; 2 arches to vestry and organ
chamber. Fittings are all C19-C20, and include a carved stone reredos with panels
for texts; and early C20 glass. Wall tablet in chancel to Francis St John 1732,
with broken pediment.

Listing NGR: SK5207204658

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17534038

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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)