Parish Church of St Bartholomew
PARISH CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET NORTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088305
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET NORTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1088305
- Date first listed:
- 26-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of St Bartholomew
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET NORTH
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW, CHURCH STREET NORTH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- Chesterfield (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38452 75261
Details
908/7/185 CHURCH STREET NORTH
26-SEP-77 Whittington
(East side)
PARISH CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
II
Parish church of 1896 by Rollinson.
MATERIALS: Coursed rock-faced gritstone with freestone dressings, slate roof.
PLAN: Nave with aisles, south-west tower and spire, lower chancel with south organ chamber and north-east vestry.
EXTERIOR: Decorated style. Openings have hood moulds with head stops and windows have cusped heads. The 3-stage tower has set-back buttresses and a broach spire. Its south doorway is within a projecting gable and has a single order of nooks shafts. The west wall has a pair of single windows. The second stage has short windows and the upper stage larger triple belfry openings with louvres. The 5-bay nave has paired clerestorey windows. Aisles have 2-light windows except for the easternmost bay, which has 3-light segmental-pointed windows. The west front has a doorway with continuous chamfer, flanked by small windows. Above is a 4-light window. The chancel has 3-light east and 1-light north and south windows. The organ chamber, gabled to imitate a transept, has a 2-light south window and 2 east windows. The lean-to vestry has a tall eaves stack.
INTERIOR: Nave arcades, which are 5-bay on the north but only 4 bays on the south on account of the tower, have round piers and double-chamfered arches. Linked hoods have foliage stops. The first 2 bays have been partitioned off below the level of the west window. The chancel arch is double-chamfered on short polygonal responds on angel corbels. The nave has an open polygonal roof, the chancel an open keeled wagon roof on a deep cornice of quatrefoils and cusping. Walls are plastered. Floor tiles remain under carpets, and raised parquet floors are beneath the pews. The sanctuary is laid with glazed and encaustic tiles.
PRINCIPAL FIXTURES: Some fixtures survive from 1896. The round font has an inscription around the bowl and is on a round stem. The polygonal pulpit has open arcading. Pews have shaped ends and frontal with blind Gothic arcading. Choir stalls, re-set facing west at the east end of the chancel, have traceried ends with poppy heads. Stained-glass windows in the aisles show a sequence of important people in church history, from St Alban to William Gladstone. They are of variable quality. One is signed by E. Frampton of London, and one north aisle window is by Morris & Co (1915). The east window shows the crucifixion and the 1914-18 war-memorial west window is by Jones & Willis.
HISTORY: Parish church of 1896 by E.R. Rollinson (an obscure architect), built on the site of an earlier church. The interior was re-ordered in the 1970s when some of the pews were removed to create a vestibule and service rooms at the west end of the nave.
SOURCES:
Pevsner (revised E. Williamson), The Buildings of England: Derbyshire (1978), 148.
REASONS FOR DESIGNATION: The church of St Bartholomew, Whittington, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
* It is a well-designed, if relatively modest, Gothic Revival church retaining original external character and detail.
* The interior retains most of its plan form and original detail, and includes choir stalls of medieval character and a complete scheme of stained-glass windows.
This List entry has been amended to add the source for War Memorials Register. This source was not used in the compilation of this List entry but is added here as a guide for further reading, 27 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83326
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 27 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/1450
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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