Saint Bartholomew's Catholic Church

Freestanding cruciform-plan gable-fronted double-height Roman Catholic Church, dated 1832, comprising two-bay double-height nave having three-stage bell tower to side (east) surmounted by later octagonal dwarf gallery and spire. Single-bay transepts to sides (east, west) and two-bay chancel to rear (south). Single-bay single-storey extensions to rear (south) of transepts. Five-bay single-storey sacristy and additional single-bay single-storey chapels to rear (south). Two-bay single-storey porch to front (north) of western transept. Pitched artificial slate roofs having render gable copings with corbels, surmounted by rendered cross finials. Hipped artificial slate roof to porch. Octagonal copper clad roof to belfry with tooled limestone eaves course and wrought-iron finial. Flat bitumen clad roofs to additional chapels and sacristy. Roughcast rendered chimneystack to sacristy. Tooled limestone corbels supporting canopy. uPVC and aluminium rainwater goods throughout. Roughcast rendered walls with rendered plinth band throughout. Tooled limestone plaques to front elevation. Dressed rubble stone walls to bell tower having buttresses to corners with tooled limestone quoins and capping. Ashlar tooled limestone walls to dwarf gallery. Tooled limestone fonts flanking door opening to front elevation of nave. Pointed arch window openings with rendered sills and surrounds throughout. Having replacement timber Y-tracery to nave and transept openings having lead-lined lattice work windows with stained glass margins. Lead-lined lattice work window to front elevation of porch and side (east, west) elevations of chancel to clerestory level with stained glass margins. Tooled limestone block-and-start surrounds with chamfered reveals, voussoirs and sills to front and side (east) elevations of bell tower, having dressed rubble stone relieving arch and lead-lined quarry-glazed windows. Square-headed window openings with render sills and surrounds to side (east, west) elevations of additional chapels, having timber-framed tripartite windows with central lead-lined stained glass windows flanked by lead-lined lattice work windows over timber panels, surmounted by lead-lined lattice work overlights. Square-headed window openings with render sills to sacristy, having timber casement windows. Trefoil-headed louvre openings to dwarf gallery having chamfered tooled limestone surrounds, voussoirs, sills and timber louvers. Pointed segmental-headed door openings having chamfered tooled limestone surrounds and voussoirs. Tooled limestone steps and replacement double-leaf glazed timber doors to front elevation openings, with projecting canopy to front entrance of nave. Dressed stone voussoirs to relieving arch of door opening to bell tower. Recessed porch to side (east) elevation of sacristy having square-headed door opening with render step and glazed timber doors flanked by timber battened sidelights. Interior with arch-braced queen post timber-framed roof springing from tooled stone corbels. Timber beam roofs to additional chapels. Timber balcony to north end of nave over internal porch and glazed timber booth accessed via timber staircase. Rendered columns supporting chapel ceilings. Tooled limestone plinth and carved white marble pedestal forming base of reredos supporting shrine encased within white marble flanked by polychrome columns surmounted by carved white marble octagonal spire with decorative finial. White marble altar having polychrome columns and tooled stone plinth to piers flanked by carved white marble chair and pulpit. Altar to Blessed Virgin Mary to eastern side chapel. Tooled limestone font to interior porch of bell tower. Grotto with statue of Blessed Virgin Mary to north-east of church and Calvary scene to north-west. Tarmac car parks and avenue to west and north of church having roughcast rendered enclosing walls with rendered plinths and coping surmounted by wrought-iron railing. Tooled limestone square-profile gate piers having chamfered corners and pyramidal capping surmounted by Celtic cross finials and double-leaf wrought-iron gates. Inscribed plaques to front (north) elevation of gate piers.