Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, FRONT STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120963
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, FRONT STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1120963
- Date first listed:
- 15-Aug-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, FRONT STREET
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.
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, FRONT STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Pelton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 24664 53046
Details
PELTON FRONT STREET NZ 25 SW (North side) 3/53 Church of the 15/8/85 Holy Trinity II
Parish church. 1841-2 by George Jackson. Dressed stone and purple slate roof. West tower and spire; aisleless nave and south porch; chancel and north vestry. Early English style.
West tower: square-plan lower stage, gabled on west, has pointed doorway, with colonnettes, loop and blind trefoil in gable; roof of lower stage dying into octagonal clock tower; octagonal belfry has trefoil-headed bell openings, each under a crocketed gablet; octagonal spire and finial. 4-bay nave has plinth, moulded sill band and recessed bays, between buttresses, with single lancets and corbel tables. West and east ends have clasping buttresses surmounted by octagonal turrets with spirelets: single lancets flanking tower; pierced trefoils flanking chancel roof. Shouldered south doorway within porch. Steeply-pitched roof with coped gables. Small 3-bay chancel has plinth, sill and eaves bands; 3 lancets on south; 3 stepped lancets under hoodmould on angle-buttressed east end. Steeply-pitched roof with coped east gable. Gabled porch has clasping buttresses; pointed doorway with colonnettes; corbel tables on returns. 2-bay gabled vestry with boiler-house in basement; pointed east door and 2-light mullioned windows above.
Plastered interior. Pointed double-chamfered chancel arch on moulded corbels. Elaborate nave roof: 6 king-post trusses and hammerbeam truss at west end; alternate trusses have arched braces with pierced trefoils in spandrels. 1853 font with octagonal bowl on squat pier and moulded base. 1855 rood screen of carved oak with drop tracery and cresting. Stained glass: chancel east window and south window (commemorating cholera outbreak) 1849 by Wailes; nave south window (after Hunt's 'Light of the World') 1911 by Wailes and Strang; also in nave, south window 1977 by Selwyn Beattie, north window 1969 by L.C. Evetts.
Listing NGR: NZ2466453046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 109397
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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