Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, FRYS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1129183
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, FRYS LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1129183
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, FRYS LANE
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 HOLY TRINITY, FRYS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Burrington
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 47864 59332
Details
ST 45 NE BURRINGTON C.P. FRY'S LANE (west side)
9/45 Church of Holy Trinity 9.2.61 G.V. I
Anglican parish church. C15, restored 1884. Coursed rubble, freestone and ashlar dressings, lead roofs. Nave, chancel, west tower, north and south aisles, south porch. 2 stage west tower with diagonal buttresses moulded string courses, south east corner polygonal stair turret and embattled parapet with cruciform arrow-slits. West facade has C15 opening with C19 tracery to lst stage and bell stage has simple 2-light openings under pointed heads. C19 sundial on south facade. South aisle has four C15 window openings with 3-light cusped C19 Perpendicular style tracery and carved head stops. Offset aisle buttresses, moulded plinth and eaves cornice, triangular trefoil pierced openwork parapet with crocketted pinnacles developing from buttresses and, at their bases, fine animal gargoyles. North aisle has 5 Tudor-arched windows of plain 3-light tracery with some C19 renewal and north door with chamfered paterae jambs and C15 plank door with elaborate wooden tracery overlaid at head of arch. Similar parapet with fine gargoyles and octagonal rood stair turret with pyramidal cap rising from crocketted and tracery panelled drum. Chancel east window has C19 tracery set within a C15 opening. South porch has similar buttressing and parapet as aisles but with a simple triple chamfered pointed headed entrance arch and above, a 2-light window under a Tudor arch with face stops to former parvise which has a stair turret at the west corner. Complexly moulded south doorway with C19 plank and batten door. Compartmented roof with moulded ribs on corbels to former parvise. Interior. 4-bay nave arcades of 4 clustered shafts to each pier with tight foliage capitals on south side only; simple single chamfered arches. Triple chamfered tower arch with moulded projecting imposts. Wagon roof to nave with carved bosses. Single chamfer chancel arch with a carving of man holding the lost rood screen to the right hand. C19 coved barrel roof to chancel and cinquefoil-headed piscina on south wall next to mutilated carving of Christ with censing angels. Aisle roofs carried on angel imposts and long wall shafts; fine ridge bosses. Fittings. Pews and screens in end bays of aisles erected 1913. C19 Perpendicular style pulpit, font and reredos. Royal coat of arms above tower arch, also 2 flags or colours of East Mendip Legion (raised in 1803). Fine set of late C19 stained glass. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST4786559338
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33913
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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