St. Mary, Bartlow, Cambridgeshire

Description

The church of St. Mary, an ancient edifice of flint and rubble in the Late Tudor style, and partially restored in 1879, consists of chancel, nave, north porch and a circular embattled western tower containing 3 bells: on the south wall of the nave is a fresco of St. Christopher, the Roman soldier, carrying the infant Saviour over a ford: the tower, which is much older than the body of the church, has walls six feet in thickness: the chancel retains a piscina and there is another in the south wall of the nave: the church affords 140 sittings.

Church Records

The register dates from the year 1573.