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.
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