CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW
List entry Number: 1298821
Location
CHURCH OF SAINT BARTHOLOMEW, GREAT BARROW
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County:
District: Cheshire West and Chester
District Type: Unitary Authority
Parish: Barrow
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II*
Date first listed: 01-Jun-1967
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 55450
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Details
SJ 46 NE BARROW C P THE VILLAGE
Great Barrow
4/4 Church of St.Bartholomew
1/6/1967
GV II*
Church: some late Medieval work in north aisle, chancel dated 1671
for Dean Bridgeman, tower dated 1744 and remainder dated 1883 by John
Douglas. Ashlar red sandstone, red tile roof. 4-bay nave and north
aisle, south porch, 3-bay chancel and a 4-stage tower. Nave has 2 and
4-light rectangular windows, with 2 levels of round-headed lights,
under label mounds. Gabled porch has a 4-centred arched entrance with
cusped ogee headed light above. Romanesque style doorway behind.
Chancel has a single and triple round-headed window and a blocked,
moulded 4-centred arched priest's doorway with a plaque above reading
"THIS CHANCEL WAS BUILT BY D HENRY BRIDGEMAN LORD BISHOP OF MAN DEAN
OF CHESTER AND RECTOR OF BARROW 1671". Pointed arched, 4-light
transomed east window. Classical style tower has bands at each stage
and semi-circular heads to surrounds with raised quoining, of the west
door, mullioned west window, and louvred bell openings. There is a
clock in the third stage and a moulded cornice carries a ramped
parapet, formerly with large gadrooned urn finials now collected at
the base of the tower. 2 good lead rainheads to the rear dated 1744
and on the south side a large circular light with raised keyblocks.
Interior: 4-bay arcade of depressed 4-centred arches on octagonal
piers. Chancel has a hammer beam truss with the Bridgeman arms on the
bosses. Boards record restoration of the chancel roof in 1807 by Hugh
Cholmondely and rebuilding of 1883. East window and east window of
the north aisle by Kempe. Octagonal font on octagonal shaft has lead
bowl dated 1713.
Listing NGR: SJ4695268338
Selected Sources
National Grid Reference: SJ 46952 68338
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