Church of the Holy Trinity and St Constantine
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND ST CONSTANTINE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087692
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity and St Constantine
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND ST CONSTANTINE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1087692
- Date first listed:
- 01-Apr-1957
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity and St Constantine
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND ST CONSTANTINE
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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.
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 AND ST CONSTANTINE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wetheral
- National Grid Reference:
- NY 46817 54401
Details
WETHERAL WETHERAL NY 4654
14/181 Church of the Holy 1. 4.57. Trinity and St Constantine
II*
Church. C13 with alterations of early C16, 1790-91, 1872 (by R.J. Withers) and 1881-2. Dressed red sandstone, graduated slate roofs, coped east gable. West tower, nave with vestry and south porch, chancel and chapel, bellcote at east end. Hexagonal tower, on site of medieval porch, 1790 with 1882 upper part. Round-arched moulded West door under 2-light window. C19 clock. Drip moulds at floors and openings; battlemented parapet with corner water spouts and pinnacles. C16 nave doors and windows, some blocked or repositioned; C16 clerestory. C19 south extension in re-used stone with 4-light window. Chancel has 5-light east window. South window and priest's door have inscriptions to William Thornton and Richard Wedderhall, Priors of Wetheral 1500-30 and 1534-9. 4-bay double-chamfered nave arcades. Medieval features include C13 hexagonal font, tomb chest with effigies of Sir Richard and Dame Jane Salkeld c1500, and fragments of stained glass. Other glass of C19 and Howard Chapel of 1791 Gothic style, has buttresses rising to pinnacles and battlemented parapet; also large cast iron pointed windows, an early use of this material. Interior has rib-vaulted plaster ceiling. Its chief ornament is a life sized monumental figure of Faith, commemorating Lady Maria Howard, died 1789, by Joseph Nollekens for Henry Howard of Corby Castle who built the chapel as her memorial. Nollekens considered this to be his finest work and he is shown carving this monument on his tombstone. See Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc., vol. xxii (new series) pp.235-8.
Listing NGR: NY4681754401
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 77762
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society in Transactions Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society, Vol. 22, (), 235-8
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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