| Building Name: | St Bartholomew's Chapel |
| Location: | Corton, Weymouth, Dorset, England |
| Geo: | 50.6678°N -2.5165°W |
| Consecration Year: | 1897 |
| Status: | Active |
St Bartholomew's Chapel is a Church of England chapel in Corton, near Weymouth, Dorset, England.[1] The chapel has early 13th century origins, with later rebuilds and a restoration of 1897. It is a Grade II* listed building.
St Bartholomew's has origins to the early 13th century, with the chancel dating to this period. The nave was rebuilt in the 16th century.[2] The building later served as a free chapel for a time but during the 19th century became used as a barn by the nearby Corton Farm.[3] The altar was painted by Henry Joseph Moule in September 1886.[4]
In 1897, the chapel underwent restoration which included rebuilding the west side of the nave.[2] The building was reconsecrated by the Church of England that year as a chapel of ease to the parish church of St Peter in Portesham.[5]
The chapel no longer holds regular services, but is used for approximately five special services each year.[6] It now forms part of the circuit known as Chesil Churches.[7]
St Bartholomew's is built of coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings and slate roofs. It is made up of a chancel and nave. Both the bell-cote on the west gable and stone cross-crosslet on the east gable are 20th-century additions. The three-light windows of the nave's west and south walls are 20th century. The chancel's east window dates to the late 14th century.[2]
Internal fittings of note include a stone altar of early 13th-century origin, which sits on a base of Purbeck Marble. In the chancel are two 15th-century moulded stone corbels, as well as a piscina dating to the 13th century but since restored. The chancel floor has eighteen re-set tiles of medieval origin.[2]