Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, WATERMOOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025128
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, WATERMOOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1025128
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jul-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, WATERMOOR ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, WATERMOOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Cotswold (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cirencester
- National Grid Reference:
- SP0261101372
Details
CIRENCESTER
SP0201 WATERMOOR ROAD
578-1/6/330 (South West side)
23/07/71 Church of the Holy Trinity
II*
Church. 1847-1851, windows enlarged by Scott 1878. By Sir
George Gilbert Scott. Rock-faced limestone with ashlar
dressings; stone slate roofs with coped verges.
2-bay aisled chancel with south vestry, 4-bay aisled nave,
north-west tower with spire.
Chancel: east gable wall with angle buttresses with offsets
has 3 lancet windows linked by continuous hoodmould with
carved stops; north wall has 2-light lancet window; south wall
has 2-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and
hoodmould.
North chancel aisle: east gable wall has circular window in
moulded stone surround with tracery of 3 quatrefoils, angle
buttresses with offsets, gabled north-east porch in angle of
chancel and aisle has single-light window with hoodmould to
east wall, small plank door in shouldered chamfered stone
surround to north; north wall of north chancel aisle has
2-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould,
attached to west is porch with hipped roof and plank door in
shouldered chamfered stone surround.
South chancel aisle: east gable wall has pointed window with 3
graduated lights and hoodmould, angle buttresses with offsets,
vestry attached to south has lancet window with hoodmould to
east and 2 pairs of lancets with hoodmoulds to south, cusped
circular window and plank door with hoodmould to west wall,
ashlar squinch passage in angle with south nave aisle.
North nave aisle: to north wall two 2-light pointed windows
with geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds, gabled porch with
buttresses with offsets has pointed doorway with paired shafts
and moulded with late C20 iron gates.
South nave aisle: to south wall three 2-light pointed windows
with plate tracery and hoodmoulds, south doorway in gabled
projection has pointed moulded hood on triple shafts with leaf
capitals, boarded door with decorative ironwork; west wall has
3-light pointed window with geometrical tracery and hoodmould,
angle buttresses with offsets.
Nave: west wall has 4-light pointed window with geometrical
tracery and hoodmould.
North-west tower: has angle and intermediate buttresses with
offsets, stair turret to north-east angle, 2 lancet windows to
north wall and 4 lancet windows to west wall, pairs of 2-light
pointed windows with plate tracery and stone louvres to each
face to bell-chamber; ball-flower frieze with gargoyles and
parapet with moulded coping; broach spire with 2-light
openings in gabled dormers to each face.
INTERIOR: chancel has single pointed moulded arches to north
and south aisles, small pointed doorway to north, doorway with
4-centred arch head to south. Chancel arch pointed with
moulded head on carved corbels. Sanctuary has carved, painted
and gilded reredos by Scott, 1881, piscina and 3 sedilia to
south; brass and oak communion rails, oak choir stalls. Organ
in north chancel aisle; communion table with carved and gilded
timber reredos to south chancel aisle.
Nave has arcade of pointed arches on round and octagonal piers
with carved capitals; octagonal stone pulpit to north-west of
chancel arch with quatrefoil decoration and openwork panels to
sides; font to west end of north nave aisle quatrefoil plan on
4 grouped marble piers with elaborate cusped and pinnacled
brass cover; softwood pews. 8-bay nave roof with king-post
trusses lit by 2 dormers to each side.
(The Buildings of England: Verey D: Gloucestershire: The
Cotswolds: London: 1970-: P.171; Verey D: Cotswold Churches:
London: 1976-: PP 76 & 77).
Listing NGR: SP0261101372
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 365468
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, Cotswold Churches, (1976), 76 AND 77
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970), 171
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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