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Description: The Church of St Bartholomew

Address: St Bartholomews Church Elland Road Ripponden Sowerby Bridge West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Bridge End, Ripponden

Full description:
Church, 1868. Hammer dressed stone, stone slate roof. Nave, aisles, transceptal chapels and south-west corner tower, chancel. Gothic Revival. 3 stage tower set in 1st bay of aisle has angle buttresses with offsets. Doorway in 1st stage, clock set between 2nd and 3rd stage which has 2-light belfry window with plate tracery and quatrefoil. Broached octagonal spire with lucarnes in the principal faces. 5-bay aisle with pointed arched 3-light windows with flowing tracery with buttresses set between. 3-light clear-storey windows alternate with arched light. Transepts have coped gables and pointed arched tracery window. 2-bay chancel under lower roof line with large east window of 5 lights with flowing tracery. Present church fourth to be built on site. First by Royal Charter Edward IV, 1464; next 1610 and 1729. Interior: 5-bay nave with pointed arches to arcade carried on clustered colonettes. 6-bay arch-braced roof. Carved reredos with with arcades with painted panels of the Apostles. Good carved pulpit in Gothic Revival style. Victorian stained glass windows. Some wall tablets from earlier church; one of some distinction with carved urn to John Howarth of Bridge Royd, Soyland who died 1804.