Church of St Bartholomew
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342678
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1342678
- Date first listed:
- 02-Mar-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH HILL
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, CHURCH HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Sandwell (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 98718 95344
Details
SANDWELL MB CHURCH HILL SO 9895 SE Wednesbury 11/57 Church of St Bartholomew 2.3.50 II
Church. Circa 1827 with C14 remains, altered and extended by Basil Champneys 1890 and later. Sandstone ashlar with slate roofs. Comprises a west tower with spire, nave with clerestory, north and south aisles, porches and chapels, and lower chancel with three-sided apse. The tower has diagonal buttresses and a stone spire set back behind an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The west doorway is moulded with pointed head. Above is a window of two cinque- foiled lights with Perpendicular tracery. The bell openings are each of two trefoiled ogee lights under a pointed head with quatrefoil. The upper stage of the tower has a clock face on each side. The nave and aisles have embattled parapets and are of three bays. Their windows, including their west windows, are of three lights with transom, with pointed heads and cusped intersecting tracery. The south porch has angle buttresses and a doorway with elliptical moulded arch. The north porch has diagonal buttresses and a moulded Tudor- arched doorway. The clerestory windows have cusped intersecting tracery. The north and south chapels are each of two bays and have 4-light windows with Perpendicular tracery. The foundation stone of the north chapel is dated "1901" and the south chapel "1903". The chancel east window is of five lights with Perpendicular tracery. Interior: five-bay nave arcades of pointed arches spring- ing from tall octagonal piers. Roof trusses have king-posts rising from cambered tie-beams, and some stencil decoration. The tower arch, said to be C14, of two chamfered orders dying into the responds. The chancel has a ribbed ceiling with bosses and stencil decoration. The pulpit, with blank arches, is dated "1611". Sixteen windows contain glass of late C19 and early C20 date by Kempe. At the west end of the nave is a table tomb with recumbent effigies of Richard Parkes a (died 1618) and his wife. (BoE, p 298).
Listing NGR: SO9871895344
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 219264
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 302
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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