CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1099290
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jan-1967
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County of Herefordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Holmer & Shelwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 50531 42404
Details
SO 54 SW; 6/44
HOLMER CP,
HOLMER
Church of St Bartholomew
27.01.67
GV
I
Parish church. Late C12 and early C13, mid- to late C19 restoration.
Coursed sandstone rubble; tiled roof. Continuous nave and chancel, late
C19 south porch and west vestry. Nave and chancel, plinth, raised verges,
single restored C19 lancets flank gabled C19 south porch; late C12 inner
doorway, two-centred arched head of two orders, outer chamfered continuous
order and inner roll-moulded with chamfered imposts, C19 moulded label;
north wall of nave has three similar C19 restored lancet windows, C15 west
window of three cinquefoil-headed lights and tracery, pair of C14 trefoiled-
ogee headed lights to left and pair of late C13 trefoil-headed lights to
right of C12 chancel doorway with semicircular head. North wall of chancel
retains two lancet windows. East end; two lower single lancets and C13
lancet in gable.
INTERIOR: concave splayed reveals to east windows with
labels which continue around church interior as string course. Similarly
sills also continued as second string course below. Similar concave splayed
reveals to lancets of north wall of chancel. C14 or C15 trussed-rafter roof
with scissor bracing to nave, C15 chancel roof of three bays with four
hammer-beam trusses; decorative members and traceried infilling between hammer
beams and collars. No chancel arch. Mid- to late C19 organ case with columns
and caryatids said to have been removed from a private house.
Listing NGR: SO5053642404
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 154229
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Herefordshire II East, (1932), 87
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Herefordshire, (1963), 195
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
