CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1057286
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1057286
Date first listed:: 28-Apr-1987
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, MAIN STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, MAIN STREET

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ash
National Grid Reference:: ST 47258 20712

Details

Church of The Holy Trinity, Main Street. 11/24 3/24

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Church of The Holy Trinity, Main Street. 11/24 3/24

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11/24 Church of the Holy Trinity

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GV II

Anglican Parish Church. 1841 by Sampson Kempthorne, chancel added 1887, tower added 1919. Ham stone cut and squared, ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roofed between coped gables. Two-cell plan of 3-bay chancel and 5-bay nave, with south-east lean-to vestry and west tower. Chancel simple, with plinth, angled corner buttresses, with triple-lancet east window having separate labels and continued cill string; pointed arched north doorway; vestry on south side has pointed-arched east door and 2 lancets without labels in south wall. Nave very simple, with chamfered plinth, single lancet windows without labels. Tower in 3 stages; pecked stone band courses, plain chamfer-corbelled parapet with corner pinnacles and 3 pointed stones each face; chamfered pointed arched west door in lowest stage; stage 2 has west lancet with label, and door in south side approached by reinforced concrete stair with iron pipe handrail; to third stage pointed arched windows with labels, with timber inserts of Y-tracery and decorative pierced baffles. Inside, plain arch-braced collar truss roof to chancel and queen post trusses to nave: chancel unplastered ashlar; segmental labels with flowerstops to doors, wide C13 style chancel arch: nave walls plastered, flush-panel timber dado. Fittings include fine reredos, and octagonal font, C15 style, presented in 1891, possibly replacing that outside by chancel door. (Pevsner, N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST4725820712

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Legacy System number:: 263409
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)

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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.