Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, TRINITY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1059942
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1975
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, TRINITY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed building
- List Entry Number:
- 1059942
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jul-1975
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, TRINITY STREET
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, TRINITY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Taunton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 23562 24451
Details
ST 2324 SE TAUNTON TRINITY STREET
(East side)
744/15/398
Church of the Holy Trinity
04.07.1975
II
Anglican church. 1842 by Richard Carver of Taunton; refitted 1882. Perpendicular style with Decorated style east window. Pale ashlar. Nave with projecting chancel. Battlements with pinnacles to corners. Pointed 2 light windows with large transom to take the galleries inside. Windows divided by buttresses. Big west tower with set back buttresses and openwork parapet, the pinnacles missing. INTERIOR: Single-span tie-beam roof with elaborate tracery above the tie-beam. Gallery on three sides with Gothic panelled front, on cast-iron clustered columns. Box-pews in gallery, but rest of seating replaced in 1882. Tall pointed chancel arch. Fine organ on west end of gallery, 1845 by William Hill. Clock in tower by Thomas Savery of Taunton Stained glass in east window. SOURCES: [1] Buildings of England, p.313. [2] Colvin, H., Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, p. 128 & 233.
Listing NGR: ST2356224451
Legacy
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- Legacy System number:
- 269925
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 128
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