Church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England)

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), BABBS GREEN

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1077956
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England)
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), BABBS GREEN
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1077956
Date first listed:
24-Jan-1967
List Entry Name:
Church of the Holy Trinity (Church of England)
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), BABBS GREEN

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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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), BABBS GREEN

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

County:
Hertfordshire
District:
East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:
Wareside
National Grid Reference:
TL 39467 15931

Details

TL 3915 WARE RURAL BABB'S GREEN (east side) Hareside 10/1 Church of the Holy Trinity (C of E) 24.1.67

GV II

Church. 1841 by Thomas Smith, polygonal vestry c1900. Yellow brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. C12 Italian Romanesque style small church with apsidal chancel (hexagonal outside) wide transepts with galleries, unaisled nave, vestry, and a vaulted crypt under the E parts. The galleries are reached by staircases in the angles between nave and transepts, the northern one carried up as an octagonal bell turret. W gable entrance, stone round-arched, enriched with dogtooth carving. Romanesque wheel-window over. Narrow round-headed windows. Consistent use of dogtooth round arches in interior on wooden pew ends, gallery fronts, and internal porch. Romanesque style wooden organcase with battlements. Nook-shafts and zig-zag ornament to apse. Corbels and cushion caps to crossing arch. Painted texts on walls. Flared stone font on short columns with scalloped cans. Victorian stained glass. Puginesque brass in chancel to Rev H H Coddington 1845. (Pevsner (1977) 332). Wareside

Listing NGR: TL3946715931

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Legacy System number:
356033
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Hertfordshire, (1977), 332

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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