Church of Saint Bartholomew, Fortified church in Kočí, Czech Republic.

The Church of Saint Bartholomew is a Gothic stone church with a rectangular nave and a five-sided presbytery, built of opuka. A covered wooden bridge on a saddle roof leads over marshy ground into a massive wooden bell tower that serves as the entrance porch.

Founded on 28 February 1397 by Sophia of Bavaria, second wife of Wenceslaus IV; the foundation charter survives only in a partial copy made by Antonín Rybička and kept in the Chrudim state archive. The masons are undocumented, though literature often names the Lútka brothers of Prague's New Town. It was always a filial church of Chrudim and never had its own parish. Renovated in the 19th century to plans by František Schmoranz.

The church has always been a filial church of the main Chrudim church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and never had its own parish priest or parish. The village belonged to the former Litomyšl diocese, established in 1344 as the second diocese in Bohemia after Prague.

The church stands on a raised area ringed by a ditch, reached by a roofed wooden Baroque bridge that leads into the wooden bell tower forming the entrance porch. The bell tower is shingled down to the ground; the sandstone-walled church and its wooden-fenced cemetery lie just beyond.

The wooden bridge is covered by a saddle roof and crosses the marshy ground before ending at the massive wooden bell tower, which serves as the church porch. The tower, sheathed in shingles down to the ground, was called "monumentally Gothic" by Václav Mencl.