Building record MDR13464 - St. Bartholomew's Church, Church Lane North, Whittington

Parish church built in 1896 by E.R. Rollinson (an obscure architect), on the site of an earlier church. It uses coursed rock-faced gritstone with freestone dressings and a slate roof. There is a Nave with aisles, a tower with a spire to the south-west, a lower chancel with organ chamber to the south and vestry to the north-east. The interior was re-ordered in the 1970s when some of the pews were removed to create a vestibule and service rooms at the west end of the nave. (1) There was a church on this location at least as early as 1140. The medieval church was replaced in 1863 by a new building, which was destroyed, apart from its tower, by a fire in 1895. The present church by E. R. Rollinson, incorporating the tower and with a higher roof and a clerestory was opened in the following year. (2)