CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1191405
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1191405
Date first listed:: 03-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
Parish:: Blore with Swinscoe
National Park:: PEAK DISTRICT
National Grid Reference:: SK 13739 49324

Details

SK 14 NW; 5/64

BLORE WITH SWINSCOE C.P., BLORE

Church of St Bartholomew

03/01/67

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Parish Church. Probably a C13 shell remodelled in the early C16. Coursed and squared limestone and sandstone rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings; lead covered roofs. West tower, 3-bay nave with south porch and north aisle, single-bay chancel and north chapel.

West tower: Three stages with belfry band and moulded parapet string and crenellated parapet with corner pinnacles; pointed west window with cusped Y-tracery and hollow chamfered surround, single-light loops to second stage, belfry openings are pointed with cusped Y-tracery; mutilated corner gargoyles at belfry and parapet levels. Nave: square-headed windows of three 3-centred arch lights with hollow chamfered mullions, the westernmost window is pointed with two trefoil arch lights and quatrefoil over, hollowed surround and hollow-chamfered mullion; blocked door below central window, porch with pointed opening and pine gate. North aisle: square-headed windows of three 4-centred lights, the easternmost window has three cinquefoil-headed lights beneath a 3-centred head, and a hollow-chamfered surround. Chancel: the south window has two lights with 4-centred heads and a hollow-chamfered mullion, the east window has an almost semicircular head with four cinquefoil-headed lights and cusped intersecting tracery incorporating quatrefoils. North chapel: the north side has a square-headed window to the west with two 4-centred lights and a hollow-chamfered surround, a pointed window to the east with a hollow chamfered surround and cusped Y-tracery incorporating a quatrefoil and a blocked pointed doorway to the centre; the east window has a roughly 4-centred head with three cinquefoil arch lights.

INTERIOR: the north arcade has two double-chamfered pointed arches and central octagonal pier with moulded capital; pointed and double-chamfered chancel arch springing from engaged semi-octagonal columns; pointed and double-chamfered tower arch; the roofs of the nave, aisle and chancel are of low pitch with cambered tie beams, ridge piece and one pair of purlins, all members are moulded. FITTINGS: C16 octagonal stone font with moulded base, trefoil-headed panels to the pedestal and quatrefoil panels containing shields to the basin; C17 oak pulpit, semi-octagonal with panelled sides; C17 oak benches and stalls, some with poppyheads; C17 oak screens to chancel and north chapel, with curved foliage decoration and open panels containing Perpendicular tracery, the chancel screen has late C19 decorative wrought iron gates; C17 oak panelling in chancel; C17 oak alter rail and gate with bobbin turned balusters. MONUMENTS: The Basset tomb:- William Basset died 1601, wife Judith Corbet died 1640 and son-in-law Henry Howard died 1616; alabaster, rectangular plan, Corinthian arcade at each end supporting shields, 3 recumbent figures, William Basset in the centre raised above the other two, 2 kneeling daughters at their heads; marble wall plaque to Thomas Thompkins died 1640; wall plaques to Richard Taylor died 1737 and to Sarah Challinor died 1745/6. Stained glass: good east window of 1865. Graded I for the generally unaltered medieval and C16 fabric and interior features.

Listing NGR: SK1374049325

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Legacy System number:: 275060
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 74

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.