This film case cache is located on the grounds of St Bartholomew's Church, a peak spot for beautiful views over Norton, Baddeley Green and Cauldon Canal with access to the field directly opposite for a canal walk.
The first written evidence of a church at Norton is from 1180. The church was then dedicated to St. Nicholas. The old building, probably Saxon; was replaced in the Fifteenth Century. In about 1609 the dedication was changed to St. Bartholomew, an apostle, considered more suitable in Puritan times to St. Nicholas, a pope who died in 867. Many dedications changed at this time. The church of 1737 forms the western end of the present building. The building was doubled in size when the eastern half was added in 1915.
Outside we have 7 acres of graveyard. It is now closed to new burials and maintained by the City of Stoke On Trent. The Lime trees were planted in 1859. The original purpose of a Lych-gate was to store a corpse overnight prior to a funeral. Ours has never been used for that. It was built in 1920 as a memorial to the men of Norton who fell in the Great War. The name of the joiner can be found by the agile. The gates were made in 1988 by Frank Hancock and the railings in 1995 by John Mulliner, both local men.