St Bartholomew, Redmarley D'Abitot
St Bartholomew, Redmarley D'Abitot
St Bartholomew’s is the Grade II parish church of Redmarley D’Abitot, Gloucestershire, on The Causeway in the Diocese of Gloucester.
- Location
- Redmarley D'Abitot, Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- County
- Gloucestershire
- City / town
- Redmarley D'Abitot
- Address
- The Causeway, Redmarley D'Abitot, Gloucestershire, GL19 3HS
- Postcode
- GL19 3HS
- Built
- Medieval tower base; upper tower 1738; remainder 1855
- Architect
- Francis Niblett
- Denomination
- Church of England
- Dedication
- Bartholomew
- Diocese
- Gloucester
- Parish
- Redmarley d'Abitot
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Decorated Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Squared coursed stone to the tower, approaching ashlar; remainder coursed squared nearly rock-faced stone with lighter ashlar dressings; tiled roof
- Grid reference
- SO 752 312
- Opening hours
- The church is open from 8am to dusk everyday. On the very rare occasion that the church is closed please contact the key holder 01531 650078.
- Access
- Level access throughout
Overview
Historic England records a medieval base to the west tower, an upper tower of 1738, and the remainder of the church rebuilt in 1855 by Francis Niblett. The tower is squared coursed stone approaching ashlar; the rest is coursed, squared, nearly rock-faced stone with lighter ashlar dressings and a tiled roof. The plan is west tower, nave, north aisle, chancel, north vestry and south porch. The three-stage tower has diagonal buttresses, Y-tracery windows of 1738, crenellated battlements and the bases of pinnacles since removed.
The parish history states that a church has stood here since at least the thirteenth century and that most of the earlier fabric was demolished when it fell into disrepair. The 1855 church has Decorated and reticulated tracery, a timber-framed south porch, and a nave roof of alternating plain and fish-scale tiles. Inside, Historic England notes a three-bay arcade, a painted stone pulpit, an octagonal font, early eighteenth-century communion rails, and a 1609 brass among later wall monuments. A single-manual pipe organ was installed in 1864.