On the weekend of 23 and 24 August 2025 the Friends of St Bartholomews held events to celebrate the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the church. It is a grade 1 listed building added to the offical list on 10 January 1955. It remains an active church with services on 2 sundays a months and with the Church of St Andrews forms part of combined parish with St Andrew’s and St Bartholomew’s, Churchdown . The photos below are a selection taken during that weekend. Further information about the history will be added at a later date.
The church has a peel of 6 bells dating from 1933 and 2014, mounted in 1828 bell frame. There are also 2 bells removed in 2014 one dated to circa 1700. There is a facebook page for a ringing team but this was last updated in 2021.
Information presented at the open weekend, held to coincide with the Feast of St Bartholomew, claims the church was built (or maybe rebuilt) in 1175. This is suggested to have taken place because of a well recorded miracle that occurred in August two or three years earlier.
