Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, HIGH HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1100167
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, HIGH HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1100167
- Date first listed:
- 16-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, HIGH HOUSE LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, HIGH HOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Worcestershire
- District:
- Bromsgrove (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Tutnall and Cobley
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 99557 69136
Details
SO 96 NE TUTNALL & COBLEY CP HIGH HOUSE LANE (off north side) Tardebigge
9/172 Church of St Bartholomew
16.11.67
GV II*
Parish church. 1777 by Francis Hiorn restored and chancel added 1879 - 1880 by Henry Rowe. Ashlar with tile and copper roof. Nave, west tower, apsidal chancel. West tower: three-stage tower surmounted by slender octagonal spire; second stage open with concave walls and pairs of Doric columns to corners capped by urn finials; each wall has a semi-circular headed opening; first stage has a moulded cornice with pilastered semi- circular headed openings with keystones; ground stage: central entrance has doorcase with engaged Doric columns and pediment below a Diocletian window; radially glazed fanlight and two-leaf door; tower flanked by a vestry each side, each with a semi-circular headed window. Nave of five bays, each has a semi-circular headed recess below a moulded cornice with parapet above and urn finials; four bays to right have semi-circular headed windows with multi-pane iron windows. Chancel: moulded plinth and cornice square with apse; the apse has three windows with semi-circular heads; priest's door in south wall. Interior: octagonal 'narthex' beneath tower; chancel arch semi-circular. Gallery to west on two square piers, front of gallery has raised and fielded panels. Fittings: C18 box pew in north-east corner of nave; wall memorial to Lady Mary Cookes, died 1694, above pew, has barley sugar columns, and relief medallion of husband and wife; in the chancel, wall memorial to Other Archer, died 1833, with weeping maiden, signed "Chantrey 1835". This church occupies a hill-top site and the spire is a prominent landmark. (BoE, pp 275 - 276; Howard Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600 - 1840, 1978, p 419; VCH 3, p 228; Margaret Dickins, A Thousand Years in Tardebigge, 1931, pp 85 p 90).
Listing NGR: SO9955769136
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 156224
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Dickins, M, A Thousand Years in Tardebigge, (1931), 85-90
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1913), 228
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 419
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 275-276
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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