Moreton Corbet - St. Bartholomew Church

St. Bartholomew Church

St. Bartholomew's Church is a respectable grey stone church by the atmospheric ruins of Moreton Corbet castle. The church features a Norman chancel and an ambitious later south aisle. There is an unusual triangular west window and chest tombs bearing effigies of the Corbet family - one with eighteen children portrayed and one with a single baby in swaddling clothes with rose and lily. There is also an extraordinary Corbet family pew-room built into the south wall complete with a fireplace and carved seating on three sides. There is good stained glass throughout - particularly a huge 19th century east window, teeming with children.

The church was patronised by the Corbet family and also houses a number of the family's funerary monuments. The chest tomb of Sir Richard Corbet (died 1566) and his wife Margaret can be seen today.