Church of St Bartholomew, Brightwell Baldwin

Heritage listing

Details BRIGHTWELL BALDWIN SU6594, SU69NE 15/12, 4/12 Church of St. Bartholomew 18/07/63 GV I Church. C13, rebuilt early C14; west tower remodelled and north chapel built in C15: restored 1895. Coursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, partly rendered to north; gabled old tile roof. Chancel, north chapel, aisled nave and west tower. Reticulated 3-light east window; south side of chancel has 3 two-light ogee-headed windows, pointed chamfered doorway and similar C15 transomed window, C15 north chapel has label moulds with head stops over 2- and 3-light windows. North aisle has 3 two-light ogee-headed windows, pointed moulded doorway and similar window in west end. South aisle has 3 two-light reticulated windows, flanking pointed moulded doorway to late C19 door with ancient decorated lock; porch, with pointed chamfered doorway, built 1904; 2-light window with radiating mouchettes in east end and 2-light ogee-headed window in west end. Tower has large offset corner buttresses flanking 2-light window over pointed doorway, set within revealed moulded arch with crocketed niches; C13 stair-turret with quatrefoil window to south; C13 paired lancets partly restored to south; late C18 crenellated third stage with blind lunettes and crocketed pinnacles. Interior: chancel has blind reredos arcade, roof and stalls of 1860's: screen erected 1903; C14 piscina and aumbry to south, and trefoil-headed recess to north; head of blocked C13 lancet set over and to side of C15 chamfered doorway with C17 studded door to north chapel which has piscina; early C14 double-chamfered blocked doorway to north aisle, which has Stone family chapel to east divided off by early C14 archway and late C19 screen, Nave has early C14 four-bay arcades of double-chamfered arches with linking hoodmoulds se

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.