St Bartholomew's Church, Dublin

The church was consecrated in 1867. Many of its original features are intact, such as the sanctuary mosaics and the elaborate wrought iron choir screen.^[1] The architect was Thomas Henry Wyatt. The rectory was built in 1872 by the architect James Edward Rogers.^[2]

The bells were cast by Gillett & Bland of Croydon and hung in 1881. Although described as a "carillon", there are only eight bells, making it technically a chime.^[3][4]

Julius Turing (1873–1947) and Ethel Stoney (1881–1976), parents of the mathematician and computer scientist Alan Turing (1912–1954), were married in the church in October 1907.^[5]

The church is the focal point of the civil parish of the same name in the barony of Dublin.

Saint Bartholomew's Church maintains a liturgical tradition that is broadly related to that of the Anglo-Catholic tradition. Anglo-Catholicism distinguishes that section or party of the Anglican Communion which stems from the Tractarian Movement of the 1830s. (This movement was centred in Oxford and included such influential figures as John Henry Newman, one of the prime movers in the founding of what was to become University College Dublin.) Anglo-Catholics hold a "high" doctrine of the Church and the sacraments; they attach great importance to the apostolic succession, that is, to an episcopal order derived from the apostles; to the historical continuity of the existing Church with the Church of the earliest centuries; and to the Church's ultimate independence of the State.

The church offers a weekly Sunday Solemn Eucharist (sometimes referred to as High Mass) that includes a sung liturgy, the use of candles, Eucharistic vestments and incense, and liturgical processions. Clergy are assisted by servers (including acolytes and a thurifer). Choral Evensong is offered on Sundays, and on festivals or the eve of festivals there is Solemn Evensong (with incense) and Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament. The main services are accompanied by the parish choirs.

The following have served as vicars of St Bartholomew's:^[6]

• 1864–1871: Arthur Altham Dawson
• 1871–1905: Richard Travers Smith
• 1905–1918: Harry Vere White (later Bishop of Limerick)
• 1918–1951: Walter Cadden Simpson
• 1951–1957: Robert Norman Sidney Craig
• 1957–1964: Henry Homan Warner
• 1964–1972: James Maurice George Carey
• 1972–1987: John Thomas Farquhar Paterson (later Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin)
• 1978–1985: John Robert Winder Neill (later Archbishop of Dublin)
• 1985–2000: John Andrew McKay
• 2000–2004: William James Ritchie
• 2004–2007: Michael Thompson
• 2008–present: Andrew McCroskery