Description from record TR 06 SW 8:
[TR 0443 6158] St. Bartholomew's Church [NAT] (1) The church comprises nave and chancel, with a shingled bell-cote over the west end. The walls are of ragstone and flint, with stone dressings. Four Norman windows remain, one in each side wall of both nave and chancel. Other windows 14th and 15th century. 19th century porch on north side. Original south doorway blocked. The church is in normal use. GP/AO/59/189/6 from S.E. (2) Checked and correct (3). Parish Church of St. Bartholomew, Grade I, Goodnestone Lane (south side). 12th century, north porch 1837. Restored 1876. (For full description see list.) (4). Church of St. Bartholomew, Goodnestone, early Norman, with original windows north and south in both nave and chancel (5). Additional references (6,7) and site photographs (8-10).

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TR 06 SW GRAVENEY GOODNESTONE LANE (South side)
2/99 Church of St. Bartholomew, 24.1.67 Goodnestone
GV I
Parish Church. C12, north porch 1837. Restored 1876 (£400). Flint and plain tiled roof. Chancel, nave with wooden bell turret, north porch. Fine 3 light C15 west window. Lancets in nave and chancel north and south, otherwise C15 Perpendicular windows. Interior: nave with roof of 2 crown posts. C14 chancel arch chamfered into responds. Chancel with braced rafter roof. Fittings: combined piscina/sedile in chancel and piscina in nave. Rood stair in nave. Tomb recess on chancel north wall, cusped segmental arch and panel with encircled quatrefoils. Glass: in east window, and possibly west window by Thomas Willement (dated 1844). (See B.O.E. Kent II, 1983, 334). Listing NGR: TR0447361657 (11)

<1> OS 6" 1908 (OS Card Reference). SKE48323.

<2> F1 ASP 08-JUL-59 (OS Card Reference). SKE41999.

<3> F2 CFW 25-JUL-63 (OS Card Reference). SKE43279.

<4> DOE (HHR) Swale Boro Kent May 1986 37 (OS Card Reference). SKE40628.

<5> Buildings of England (ed N Pevsner) NE and E Kent 1983 334 (J Newman) (OS Card Reference). SKE38405.

<6> Field report for monument TR 06 SW 8 - July, 1959 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5278.

<7> Field report for monument TR 06 SW 8 - July, 1963 (Bibliographic reference). SKE5279.

<8> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9544.

<9> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9545.

<10> 1946, Photograph (Photograph (Print)). SWX9626.

<11> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.