St Bartholomew Holton

 

This should have been the first church I visited  after my time in Hospital but I did go to one yesterday which I will feature in the future. I have also visited St Bartholomew Holton before back in 2015 but it was looked on that visit. This time I contacted the Vicar who let me have the Key to the Church.                         History from Wikipedia:-

 "The Church of England parish church of Saint Bartholomew was built in about 1200. It is cruciform and is in the transitional style between Norman architecture and Early English Gothic. Early in the 14th century its chancel was rebuilt and given a Decorated Gothic east window. The Gothic Revival architect E.G. Bruton built the rectory in 1882. St. Bartholomew's parish is now part of a single Church of England benefice with St. Mary's parish, Wheatley and the benefice is part of a local ecumenical partnership with Wheatley's Roman Catholic, United Reformed and free churches".

The sun was over to the left looking at the north side so tended to make the church dark

The south side was a lot easier to take

Looking from the south east

 

 

South west end

 

 

There are a quite a few older headstones around the north side

 

Moving over to the west end

 

 My son who was with me spotted this cast iron marker cross

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Inside the porch with Norman carvings around it

 

 

Not sure what this pulley would have been used for though

 

 

Looking down the nave
 

 

The chancel
 

 

Altar through the open altar rails

Another long shot taken with my iphone

The arches of the north and south chapels with chancel in front

Altar and east window

Closer view of the altar and east window

The east window casting the colour of the stained glass on the altar

Wine glass pulpit

That gives a good view of both nave and south chapel

The font with bell pull to the right

 

I could not give a date to the font which has an unusual shape

North chapel which is home to the organ

Some of the memorials you can see in the church, the one to the far right is behind the organ

The south chapel the arch which I think is Saxon

 

These brasses can be seen in the chapel

More memorials from the church

Original paining can be seen on the chapel arch

This impressive memorial is in the south chapel

The village rolls of Honour

 

The first and second world war ones being in the centre

A couple of stained glass windows from the church

This one I nearly missed as it is in the loft at the back of the church, I zoomed in with my iphone to get it, it has hints of medieval glass in it

Near the altar a couple of tombs with brasses on them

One showing a date of 1633

The second with the same date though reading them one died the day after the other

John Elstone and his wife Elizabeth who died in 1669 and 1651

The brass of Eliza Carey the wife of William Earl of Biscoe, what got me about it was she came from the Isle of White

Till next time I wish you all a wonderful Coronation Weekend

God Save the King