Church of St Bartholomew

Ashlar interior provides unexpected grandeur for a church of this scale. The nave has a 4-bay 4-sided roof with windbraces and closely-spaced rafters; the chancel has similar 4-sided roof with painted rafters and toothed cornice. Moulded pointed chancel arch supported on foliated corbels; painted inscription beneath hoodmould which has gilded winged angel headstop to L; to R, cross-angle doorway to tower with shouldered head. Chamfered pointed-arched opening to organ chamber. Pointed arched doorway to vestry from S side of chancel. Steps up to chancel, which retains original furnishings designed by Douglas including choir stalls with curved ends and ornamented with roundels and pierced patterns; sedilia to SE, the seats separated by a round column and with arched ogee head. Rere arches to chancel windows, the hoodmoulds with decorative end stops. Octagonal font decorated with IHS monograms, carried on marble columns, at W end of nave; the octagonal stone pulpit can only be reached from the base of the tower stairs which lead off the vestry. The glass in the E window, depicting the Crucifixion, was donated by Douglas and designed by Harman; the W window shows the 12 disciples and was inserted in 1880 to the designs of Kempe. Small memorial tablets of brass and marble.

Church in Early-Decorated Gothic style. Nave, chancel, S porch, N organ chamber and SE tower, the latter forming the principal element of the design. Constructed of coursed rock-faced red Helsby sandstone under a slate roof. Detail includes freestone plinth and impost band, window dressings and gable parapets with crucifix finials. Gabled S porch has moulded pointed entrance arch with clasping buttresses and raised gable parapets; paired quatrefoil windows to sides. It is vaulted internally with decorative corbels, quarry tile floor and stone benches; similar entrance into nave with hoodmould with carved headstops, double boarded doors; inscription above reading 'Enter these gates with thanksgiving'. Five-bay nave, mainly with cusped 2-light windows: S side has 3 pairs to R of porch and single light to L of porch. N side has single light to L and 3 paired lights to R. The W end has moulded sill band and angle buttresses; Geometrical 2-light W window with foliated central capital and large cusped oculus under the arch; each light is similarly divided by a capital with roundel above. Round chimney to E gable apex.

To SE, at junction of nave and chancel, 3-stage bell-tower with pyramidal roof, deeply bracketed eaves and gargoyles to angles; paired lancet belfry openings to each side with continuous moulded sill band. Good semi-circular vice tower to W side over a lean-to, which contains shouldered arched entrance into vestry. Clock to S face of tower, under which is a small lancet. E side of tower has single light with decorated head to 2nd stage, under which is a 2-light window in plate tracery. Gabled N organ chamber with large wheel window consisting of a quatrefoil surrounded by roundels, hoodmould with head stops; small lancet to L. Two-bay chancel stepped down, with corbelled eaves, moulded sill band and hoodmoulds with headstops; 3-light E window with impaled trefoils and large cusped oculus; the N side has single light to L and paired lights to R; single light to S side.