Church of Holy Trinity

CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1040479
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
Church of Holy Trinity
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, THE GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1040479
Date first listed:
04-Feb-1969
List Entry Name:
Church of Holy Trinity
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, THE GREEN

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, THE GREEN

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Hinton-in-the-Hedges
National Grid Reference:
SP 55806 36941

Details

SP53NE
6/126

HINTON-IN-THE-HEDGES
THE GREEN (North side)
Church of Holy Trinity

04/02/69

GV
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Church. C12 and C14. Coursed limestone rubble, ironstone quoins; tiled roof.Chancel, nave and north aisle, south porch, west tower.

Chancel windows are Victorian. South doorway in nave C14 with plank door and C19 porch. To right a C14 three-light window, the tracery probably C19. C14 lancet to left. In the north aisle, the doorway is C14 flanked by C14 windows of one and two lights, C14 east window (tracery renewed) and C14 lancet to west.

Romanesque tower of three stages with bell openings of two arched lights and corbel table with heads. Deeply splayed round headed lancet on ground stage of west wall. Fragments of herringbone masonry in west walls nave to north and south of tower, possibly Saxon.

Interior: Late C12 north arcade of two bays has round pier with square abacus and trumpet scalloped capital, and similar responds. Double chamfered arches C14. Chancel arch C14, has corbels with grotesque heads. Stairs to former rood loft in north aisle. Romanesque tower arch, unmoulded.

Fittings: Tub font, early C13 with frieze of intersecting arches and stiff leaf. Chancel screen, Perpendicular, with one-light traceried openings and vine scroll cornice. Pulpit, Jacobean, with blind arcading. Stained glass in chancel, fragment of 'Coronation of the Virgin' early C15. Monuments: Sir William Hinton (?) wife. C14 stone effigies on chest tombs. Wall tablets to Salathiell Crewe died 1686, with open pediment, attributed to William Stanton, and to Reynold Braye died 1582, brass inscription in architectural frame with Corinthian columns.

(Buildings of England : Northamptonshire, p.259).


Listing NGR: SP5580636941

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Legacy System number:
234025
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 259

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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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