Church of the Holy Trinity
Church of the Holy Trinity, A 68, Horsley, NE19 1TA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044875
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- Church of the Holy Trinity, A 68, Horsley, NE19 1TA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1044875
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of the Holy Trinity, A 68, Horsley, NE19 1TA
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, A 68, Horsley, NE19 1TA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Rochester
- National Park:
- Northumberland
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 84156 97210
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/06/2019
NY 89 NW
16/65
ROCHESTER
Horsley
A 68 (east side)
Church of the Holy Trinity
Formerly listed as Church of the Holy Trinity, A68 (east side)
10.11.51
II
Parish church. 1844 by John and Benjamin Green. Dressed stone with ashlar dressings and chamfered plinth; Welsh slate roof. Romanesque style. West tower, nave and apse, south porch.
Five bay nave with porch in left bay; keystone to doorway dated 1844. One-light windows with dripstones and sill band. Flat angle buttresses. Heavy modillion cornice. Apse has similar detail. Three storey west tower has one-light windows on ground and first floor and paired, louvred bell openings. Modillion cornice and pyramidal roof.
Interior has open timber roof with arched braces. Elaborate Gothic reredos, with crocketed finials. Good, light-oak seating, pulpit and choir stalls of c.1890. They are very simple and look later. In the apse stone tablets carved with the ten commandments, the creed and the Lord's Prayer. Wood panel over the tower arch inscribed "This chapel was erected in the year 1844. It contains 182 sittings, and in consequence of a grant from the incorporated society for promoting the enlargement, building and repairing of churches and chapels, the whole of that number are hereby declared to be free and unappropriated for ever ...."
In the porch a Roman altar.
Listing NGR: NY8415697210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 239725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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