CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1116020
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH LANE

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Date:: 2001-06-30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1116020
Date first listed:: 30-Mar-1960
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH LANE

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, CHURCH LANE

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District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Rangeworthy
National Grid Reference:: ST 68661 86248

Details

ST 68 NE RANGEWORTHY CHURCH LANE

1/38 Church of the Holy Trinity 30.3.60 G.V. II*

Anglican Parish Church. C11, C15 alterations, extended and restored, 1851. Rubble, freestone dressings, slate roof with weathered, coped verges, cross finials and stone ridge. Nave, south porch, north aisle, chancel, north vestry. Much restored, now mainly Perpendicular. Nave, with diagonal buttresses as elsewhere, has a heavily restored 2-light west window below a corbelled, octagonal bell-turret with alternate cusped openings between jamb-shafts, conical cap, two 3-light square head windows under labels flank the gabled south porch which has a moulded barely pointed arch under a drip mould, a tiny cusped west light and a plain 2-light east window, within the doorway has jamb shafts with scalloped capitals, plain tympanum below double chevron topped by pellet moulds, to right of this a pointed piscina below a frieze, plain oak benches. North aisle has 3 windows as nave, grotesque gargoyle at junction with nave. Chancel is lower than nave, to the south two 2-light windows flank a priest's door all under labels, at east a 3-light window as nave west end, adjoining flat roof north vestry has a 2-light east window and a north door as south doorway. Interior: chancel arch has same features as south doorway on a larger scale, chancel has 2 piscinas, one dates from restoration, the other is earlier: 3-bay arcade, crude wave and shaft. Fittings: chamfered square font may be of C13 origin; half-octagon, corbelled C15 stone pulpit has cusped panels and a foliate frieze and is entered from vestry up altered rood stairs. Memorials: freestone tablet on external wall of nave, drapes around a tablet, now illegible. (Source: D. Verey : Buildings of England : Gloucestershire : The Vale and the Forest of Dean : 1970).

Listing NGR: ST6866186248

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Legacy System number:: 350728
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Verey, D , The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 2 The Vale and The Forest of Dean, (1970)

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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.