Nominal: 1004.5 Hz Weight: 560 lbs Diameter: 30.63" Bell 1 of 3
Founded by Unidentified (inscribed)
Dove Bell ID: 1860 Tower ID: 12546 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: quarter Cracked: No
Covenham: St Bartholomew
Overview
Grid reference: TF 339 945
The best view of the church is from the south where the south porch and transept group well with the nave and the low pyramidal bell turret over the eastern part of the latter, which is just large enough to provide a central accent to the external appearance of the church.
Visiting and facilities
Building is closed for worship
Building
Ground Plan Description and Dimensions
Ground plan:
Nave without aisles but with a south porch and transept; chancel. There is a low bell-turret above the eastern part of the nave.
Description of Archaeology and History
The date of the nave is difficult to determine since it has been much patched and all the windows are now Victorian. The chancel and south transept, however, are fourteenth-century. Five new windows were inserted in 1854-5 and there was a restoration and reseating in 1863-4 by Rogers and Marsden of Louth. The cost is said to have been £350.
Exterior Description
The best view of the church is from the south where the south porch and transept group well with the nave and the low pyramidal bell turret over the eastern part of the latter, which is just large enough to provide a central accent to the external appearance of the church. The north side has no porch or transept and the nave wall in line with that of the chancel. At the west end the corners have diagonal buttresses and in the middle of the wall is a two light window which is now entirely of nineteenth-century date. It has trefoil-headed lights and a pointed sexfoil for tracery. To the west of the porch the south wall is blind and the porch itself has a large mitred head of a bishop or abbot reset above the opening. The arch has only a plain chamfer round the edge, and there are no windows in the side walls. The window to the east of the porch has three lights and Perpendicular panel tracery which has all been renewed. The north nave wall is divided into four bays by buttresses, the western bay being blind and the next having the ghost of a blocked doorway. The two eastern bays each have three-light windows with panel tracery similar to the window in the south wall. The turret over the eastern part of the nave is very small, rectangular on plan with a low-pitched pyramidal roof of slates, the sides also being slate-hung. There are soundholes in the north and south sides. There was probably once a north transept.
The south transept is almost square on plan, and cross gabled as might be expected, with a roof of the same low pitch as all the others on the church. In the south wall is a tall two-light window with trefoil-headed lights and panel tracery. The east wall has paired ogee-headed lights under straight hood. The walls of the transept are encircled by moulded stringcourse which continues the line of one which appears at the eastern end of the south nave wall.
The chancel has a three-light east window with panel tracery, all nineteenth-century, with the grinning heads of a man and a woman at the label stops. The north wall is blind and the south wall has two paired lights similar to that in the east wall of the transept but taller, divided from each other by a buttress.
Building Fabric and Features
Stained Glass
c.1880
The east window has glass commemorating a death in 1852 but appears to be of c.1880, by Clayton and Bell; it shows The Crucifixion flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John.
Stained Glass
Mediaeval quarries with florets and an oak leaf in the head of the south transept window.
Interior
Interior Description
Within the porch is the south doorway which forms the main entrance to the church; it is surrounded by a hollow moulding and has a hollow- moulded hood. The appearance of the interior of the church is an example of the effect of snail-pointing on the texture of masonry walls. This is not improved by the contrasting harsh red brick of the chancel arch and the arch to the south transept. Within the chancel, indeed, some of the brick has been painted over to give the impression of snail-pointed stonework. The nave roof is all nineteenth-century and has four big tie-beams resting on brackets and supporting king-posts and struts which join the tie beams to the purlins. At the east end is the simple timber substructure of the turret from which hang three bell-ropes. In the north well may be seen the blocked rere-arch of the former doorway which matches that of the south doorway. The brick chancel arch is of two chamfered orders, the outer of which runs to the floor while the inner is carried on small leaf corbels. The arch to the south transept is similar but has the head of a merchant and a woman against the responds. The floors throughout are laid with Victorian encaustic tiles and few architectural details remain save for the mutilated bowl of a piscina under a chamfered arch in the south transept.
Fixtures and fittings
Altar
17th Century
The altar is a seventeenth-century communion table with turned baluster legs, small and stoutly made.
Pulpit
The pulpit is an octagon of oak with plain panelled sides fitted with two brass candlesticks of nineteenth-century date but good copies of Georgian designs.
Font (object)
The font is one of the few treasures of the church, an octagon of Perpendicular date carved with four angels with shields against the stem and figures against the bowl representing the twelve apostles grouped in pairs with their appropriate attributes the Virgin and Child and the Trinity.
Bells
Nominal: 1238 Hz Diameter: 27" Bell 2 of 3
Founded by Mellours (generic)
Dove Bell ID: 17334 Tower ID: 12546 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Nominal: 1115 Hz Diameter: 29.25" Bell 3 of 3
Founded by William I Oldfield 1632
Dove Bell ID: 17335 Tower ID: 12546 - View Tower Listed: No Canons: Removed Turnings: unturned Cracked: No
Churchyard
Grid reference: TF 339 945
Burial and War Grave Information
It is unknown whether the building is consecrated.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has been used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard is used for burial.
It is unknown whether the churchyard has war graves.
National Heritage record for England designations
There are no records of National Heritage assets within the curtilage of this site.
Environment
Ancient, Veteran & Notable Trees
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There are no records of Ancient, Veteran or Notable Trees within the curtilage of this site.
Renewables
| Renewable | Installed |
|---|---|
| Solar PV Panels | No |
| Solar Thermal Panels | No |
| Biomass | No |
| Wind Turbine | No |
| Air Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ground Source Heat Pump | No |
| Ev Charging | No |
Species summary
There are no records of species within the curtilage of this site.
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'Seek advice' Species
More information on species and action to be taken upon discovery.
Caring for God's Acre is a conservation charity working to support groups and individuals to investigate, care for, and enjoy the wildlife and heritage treasures found within churchyards and other burial grounds. Look on their website for information and advice and please contact their staff directly. They can help you manage this churchyard for people and wildlife.
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