Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CAPENHURST LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130574
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CAPENHURST LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1130574
- Date first listed:
- 01-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CAPENHURST 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 THE HOLY TRINITY, CAPENHURST LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cheshire West and Chester (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Capenhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 36796 73789
Details
SJ 37 SE CAPENHURST C.P. CAPENHURST LANE (South Side)
4/1 Church of the Holy Trinity.
1/6/1967 II
Church: 1856-9 by James Harrison, tower and much of interior of 1889-90 by John Douglas (Pevsner and Hubbard). Red sandstone blocks with ashlar dressings. Purple tile roof. 4-bay nave, south porch, 2-bay chancel, vestry and 3-stage west tower with spire. Coped gabled porch with kneelers has moulded 2-centred arched doorcase with label mould. Remaining bays of nave are divided by heavy buttresses and have 2-light windows with Decorated tracery and label moulds. Chancel with diagonal buttresses and sill band has 1 and 3-light windows with trefoil heads. 4-light Decorated east window. Squat tower is buttressed and has octagonal stair turret at the south-west corner. 3-light west window with Edward VII Coronation clock above. Around the top is a timber-framed stage of 6 by 2 small frames with weather boarding below and pierced Gothic panels (now much damaged) above. This carries a broached spire with small Lakeland slates and a louvred lucarne. Interior: Arch-braced collar roof to nave, sprung from stone carved-head corbels. Splayed reveals to the windows. Broad low tower arch reveals font behind. 2-centred chancel arch on octagonal responds. Scissor-braced wagon roof. Panel to sides of good stone reredos carved in manner of medieval tiles with Ten Commandments inscribed above, in Arts and Crafts style script.
Listing NGR: SJ3679673789
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 55644
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Hubbard, E, The Buildings of England: Cheshire, (1971)
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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