Church of St Bartholomew, Much Marcle

Heritage listing

Details SO 63 SE; 8/89 MUCH MARCLE CP, MUCH MARCLE Church of St Bartholomew 06.03.67 GV I Parish church. C13 to C15, restored 1876 - 8. Coursed sandstone rubble, sandstone dressings with tiled roofs and lead roofs to aisles. Four-bay arcaded and aisled nave separated from chancel by central tower; north chapel and C19 vestry attached to chancel; south porch to nave. Nave: 4-light C15 west window with transom in 2-centred head with label and stops; C13 west doorway in 2-centred double chamfered arch; small lancet to west end of south aisle and small square-headed light to north aisle; four lancets to each side of clerestory; three C14 north aisle windows have two lights with cinquefoil heads under 2-centred arches; C15 east window of south side of south aisle has three trefoil-headed lights under a 2-centred head with label, restored 3-light window with intersecting tracery to east of south porch and to its west a 2-light cinquefoiled window like those in north aisle. Tower is late C15 of dressed sandstone in three stages with crenellated parapet, two waterspouts to north and south faces, angle buttresses to east corners, bell-chamber with 2-light openings and trefoiled heads to each face; small trefoiled light to second stage, one to each face; first stage has trefoil-headed light to north and south each under label with Tudor arch profile; ground floor has cambered moulded label over two cinquefoil-headed lights. Late C19 vestry has central rear stack, two trefoiled lights and a shouldered entrance. North chapel has heavily restored north wall with central buttress and a restored cinquefoiled 2-light window to the west; its east window and general massing forms a pair with those of the chancel when viewed from the east: two late C13 matching 3-light windows with 2-cent

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.