St Bartholomew, Butterton
St Bartholomew, Butterton
St Bartholomew’s is a Grade II parish church on the Causeway, Butterton, Staffordshire, in the Diocese of Lichfield, a late nineteenth-century Moorlands church with a tall west spire on a much older site.
- Location
- Butterton, Staffordshire
- Country
- England
- County
- Staffordshire
- City / town
- Butterton
- Address
- Causeway, Butterton, Staffordshire, ST13 7SP
- Postcode
- ST13 7SP
- Built
- 1871–73; west spire 1879
- Architect
- Ewan Christian; west spire by Sugden
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Bartholomew
- Diocese
- Lichfield
- Parish
- Butterton St Bartholomew
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Late C13 Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings; clay tile roofs with coped verges
- Grid reference
- SK 075 565
- Opening hours
- Daily, approximately 10am to 4pm.
- Access
- Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
Historic England lists a parish church of 1871–73 by Ewan Christian, with a west spire of 1879 by Sugden, in a late thirteenth-century style. The fabric is squared and coursed rubble with ashlar dressings and clay tile roofs with coped verges. The plan is a two-bay chancel, three-bay nave with south porch, north aisle and a west tower with stone spire. The three-stage tower has an offset plinth, crenellated parapet with crocketed corner pinnacles, and gabled openings to the spire. Listing NGR is SK 07593 56580.
The interior has a north arcade on cylindrical columns, a pointed chancel arch from moulded corbels, a scissor-braced nave roof and a boarded chancel roof. Fittings include an octagonal sandstone font of about 1300 and seventeenth-century oak chairs in the tower and chancel. A wooden plaque records a 1775 bequest by Ruth Stubs. The National Churches Trust notes a church on the site since about 1254 and that the present building replaced a chapel of 1563. The spire is a landmark in the Staffordshire Moorlands.