Church of St Bartholomew

CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1374273
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1964
List Entry Name:
Church of St Bartholomew
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1374273
Date first listed:
27-Feb-1964
List Entry Name:
Church of St Bartholomew
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF ST BARTHOLOMEW

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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:
Lichfield (District Authority)
Parish:
Farewell and Chorley
National Grid Reference:
SK 08323 11622

Details

SK 01 SE FAREWELL AND FAREWELL CHORLEY C.P.

2/23 Church of St. Bartholomew 27.2.64

GV II*

Parish church. Circa 1300 largely rebuilt in the mid C18 and restored mid C19. Chancel, nave and west tower (with south porch). Stone and red brick; tiled roofs with verge parapets to east. Tower: 1747 brick, only slightly taller than nave ridge, raised string below plain corniced parapet, small round-arch bell chamber openings; gabled south porch with round arch entrance. Nave: 1740 of brick; corbelled eaves band and pilasters at extremities; two bays, round arch Y-tracery windows with keystone heads. Chancel: of one bay and under continuous ridge with nave, C15 panel tracery two-light flat-headed windows to sides; 3-light, pointed east window with intersecting tracery. Interior: nave roof late C19 crown post type. Pulpit: C20, octagonal with carved linenfold panels. Simple font on stand inscribed "A. A. MINN/IR CH WAR/1703". Two ranges of circa 1300 misericords in chancel. Graded II* for surviving medieval fabric and fittings. B.O.E. p.131.

Listing NGR: SK0832311622

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
272634
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 131

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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© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100024900.© British Crown and SeaZone Solutions Limited 2026. All rights reserved. Licence number 102006.006.

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