St Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow

Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow
St Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow, from the south
Bartholomew's Church, Wilmslow Location in Cheshire
Coordinates: 53°19′48″N 2°13′47″W / 53.3301°N 2.2296°W / 53.3301; -2.2296
OS grid reference	SJ 848 814
Location	Wilmslow, Cheshire
Country	England
Denomination	Anglican
Website	St Bartholomew, Wilmslow
History
Dedication	Saint Bartholomew
Consecrated	16th century
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Heritage designation	Grade I
Designated	30 March 1951
Architect(s)	Brakspear, J. S. Crowther, Bodley and Garner
Architectural type	Church
Style	Gothic, Gothic Revival
Completed	1898
Specifications
Materials	Buff sandstone Kerridge stone-slate roof
Administration
Parish	Wilmslow
Deanery	Knutsford
Archdeaconry	Macclesfield
Diocese	Chester
Province	York
Clergy
Rector	Revd Dr Paul Smith
Priest(s)	Revd Magdalen Smith
Assistant priest(s)	Revd John Lees, Revd Roger Yates
Laity
Reader(s)	Jan Lees, Don Hood, Sally Mullock, Jack Luxton
Churchwarden(s)	Phil Gaskell, Barbara Foster

St Bartholomew's Church is in the town of Wilmslow, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. It is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Macclesfield and the deanery of Knutsford.

The earliest documentary evidence of a church on the site is dated 1246. Nothing of this church remains but there is a crypt leading from the chancel which pre-dates the present church. Most of the church was built in the early 16th century also, though it is possible that the lower part of the tower dates from the 15th century. The Hawthorne Chapel was added to the south side of the church in 1700, replacing a former chantry dated 1520. There was a restoration in 1862-63 by Brakspear, in 1878 J. S. Crowther added the vestry and the south porch, and a clerestory was added to the chancel in 1898 by Bodley and Garner.

The church is built from ashlar buff sandstone with a Kerridge stone-slate roof. The tower at the west end leads to a five-bay nave with north and south aisles, a chancel with chapels to the north and south, a vestry to the north of the north chapel, a south porch and the Hawthorne Chapel projecting from the south wall.

In the wall of the north aisle is an old aumbry. The chapel at the east end of the north aisle is the Trafford (formerly Jesus) Chapel and that at the east end of the south aisle is the Booth or Prescott Chapel. In the Booth Chapel is a large tomb to the memory of Captain John Worrall. The chapel formerly contained the tomb of George Booth of Dunham Massey and his wife Elizabeth but this was removed in the 1861–63 restoration. The Hawthorne Chapel contains some early 18th-century panelling and old seating.