Church of St Bartholomew, Barbon
Description: Church of St Bartholomew
Grade: II*
Date Listed: 21 February 1989
English Heritage Building ID: 75588
OS Grid Reference: SD6305082462
OS Grid Coordinates: 363050, 482462
Latitude/Longitude: 54.2365, -2.5684
Location: Banneriggs Brow, Barbon, Cumbria LA6 2LJ
Locality: Barbon
Local Authority: South Lakeland District Council
County: Cumbria
Country: England
Postcode: LA6 2LJ
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Listing Text
SD 68 SW BARBON BANNERIGGS BROW
(North side) Barbon
22/8 Church of
St Bartholomew
II*
Church. 1893. By Paley and Austin. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and
stone slate roofs. Nave, aisles, crossing tower, south transept, north organ
loft and vestry, chancel. Free Perpendicular style. Coped gables; most lights
have 3-centred cusped heads. 4-bay nave has 2-bay aisles to east end. West end
has flat weathered buttresses flanking 3-light window. Straight-headed north
and south windows of 2 and 3 lights; aisle returns have single lights. South
porch is gabled; 3-centred arch with label mould and statue in niche above;
single light to south. Tower has square south-east stair turret clasping angle;
single light to west with clock face above. 2 ogee-headed lights to north; bell
opening of 3 lights with louvres, impost course, embattled parapet with water
spouts; pyradmidal roof with tall cross. Gabled organ loft has straight-headed
3-light north window; outshut under catslide roof to east has 2 straight-headed-
windows of 3 lights and entrance with shouldered lintel. Transept has 2-light
straight-headed traceried window and large weathered buttress to west. Chancel
has 5-light east window and gable cross, 2-light window to south. Interior:
Porch has 2 pairs of doors. Nave has arch-braced double collar trusses and 2
tiers of wind braces. Octagonal stone font has buttresses and Tudor flower, and
cover. Small font and cover, and royal arms of 1815 from church of 1814. 2-bay
arcades have double-chamfered segmental arches dying into octagonal pier and
responds. Simple pews with moulded muntins. Crossing arches die into octagonal
piers. Chancel screen to west and parclose screens to north and south have
tracery and cornice with brattishing. Arches between aisles and vestry and
transept are hollow-chamfered with Tudor flower, that to vestry with screen.
Transept has pews and tower entrance in projection. Pulpit is timber on stone
base, pierced tracery and cornice; wood eagle lectern. Chancel has arch braced
collar roof with struts and windbraces. Stalls have tracery panels. South
recess below window and piscina with 3-centred head and lobed bowl. North
entrance with tracery head. Early C18 altar rail with turned balusters and wood
credence shelf on struts.
Listing NGR: SD6305082462
Source: English Heritage
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