St Bartholomew, Kirkwhelpington

  • Description

    Information about the church and services. "A thirteenth-century (or earlier) building, St Bartholomew's,with its low, broad Perpendicular tower and long nave and chancel, was altered in the fifteenth century and then in 1896. Excavations have revealed that the building originally had aisles and transepts. There are tow fourteenth-century bells, a seventeenth-century font (which rests on the reversed capital of a fourteenth or fifteenth-century pier) and a mahogany pulpit from 1797. The glass includes work by Heaton, Butler and Bayne (1909 and 1914). The distinguished engineer and inventor Sir Charles Parsons is buried here with his wife Katherine ...."
  • Owner

    Church of England
  • Source

    Local (Co-Curate)
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  • Further information

    Link: https://www.achurchnearyou.com/kirkwhelpington-st-bartholomew/
    Resource type: Text/Website
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 7 years, 8 months ago
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