The Church of St Bartholomew, Crewkerne (Crewkerne)

 church, Grade I Listed (UK)

The first church on this site was founded in Saxon times, before the end of the 9th century. Nothing remains of this church, which was replaced after the Norman Conquest with a substantial stone building, cruciform in shape and with a central tower in the same pattern as the present one. This, in turn, was almost completely rebuilt on a grander scale, in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Tthe church we have today, a superb example of the Perpendicular style with many unusual features. Among these include the monumental west front, the high and spacious, though short, nave, the vast six-light aisle windows and the impressive collection of Tudor-style chapels and windows in the north east corner. The building material throughout is the beautiful golden-coloured Ham Hill stone, quarried a few miles north of Crewkerne.
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