St Bartholomew, Maresfield
St Bartholomew, Maresfield
St Bartholomew’s is a Grade I parish church at Maresfield, East Sussex, in the Diocese of Chichester, a Norman-origin village church with a fifteenth-century west tower and Victorian transepts by J. Oldrid Scott.
- Location
- Maresfield, Sussex
- Country
- England
- County
- Sussex
- City / town
- Maresfield
- Address
- High Street, Maresfield, Sussex, TN22 3DP
- Postcode
- TN22 3DP
- Built
- c.1080, c.1260 and 14th century; 15th-century west tower; restored and transepts added by J. Oldrid Scott
- Architect
- J. Oldrid Scott (restoration and transepts)
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Bartholomew
- Diocese
- Chichester
- Parish
- Maresfield St Bartholomew
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Norman and Gothic, with Victorian transepts
- Materials
- Stone; north porch with sandstone base, timber superstructure and Horsham slab roof
- Grid reference
- TQ 465 240
- Opening hours
- Monday to Saturday 9am to 5pm.
- Access
- Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Historic England dates the parish church to about 1080, about 1260 and the fourteenth century, with a fifteenth-century tower, restored and with transepts added by J. Oldrid Scott. The plan is nave with aisles, chancel, north and south transepts, south chapel, north porch and west tower. The four-stage west tower has a crenellated parapet, double trefoils to the bell stage, a traceried west window and an arched west door with hoodmould and blank shields in the spandrels. The south nave wall retains a round-headed lancet of about 1080.
The nineteenth-century north porch has a sandstone base, wooden superstructure and Horsham slab roof. The north transept has a rose window. The lower two-bay chancel has double trefoil-headed windows and a nineteenth-century traceried east window. Interior fittings highlighted in the listing include a Jacobean pulpit and communion rail with vertically symmetrical balusters. A chancel north window has stained glass probably by Powell. A wall tablet to Edward Kidder (d. 1817) includes a medallion with a Turkish soldier.