Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130892
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1130892
- Date first listed:
- 13-Feb-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Coverham with Agglethorpe
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 10397 86369
Details
SE 19 NW COVERHAM WITH AGGLETHORPE COVERHAM
10/9 Church of Holy Trinity 13/2/67
- II*
Church. C13, C14, C15, late C16 - early C17. Rubble, stone slate roof. 3-storey west tower, nave with south aisle and south porch, chancel with north vestry. Quoins. Tower: C15. Offset diagonal buttresses to west; west window of 3 trefoil-headed lights with hollow-chamfered moulding; light vent to south side ringing floor; 2-light chamfered-mullion belfry openings on all 4 sides; embattled parapet with crocketted finials. Nave: 4 C19 north windows. South aisle: offset diagonal buttresses; late C16 - early C17 west window of 3 lights with roundheads without tracery but with trefoil carving in spandrels, all under a segmental arch with label; 3 early C14 south windows of 2 trefoil-headed lights; Perpendicular east window of 3 lights with cinquefoil heads. South porch: offset diagonal buttresses to south, pointed-arched doorway with hollow-chamfered moulding, gable cross; stone benches inside; quoined south doorway to nave with pointed arch, no capitals, ovolo moulding to chamfer, small foliate cross on right jamb. Chancel: to south, 2 late C13 lancets and one C15 window of 2 trefoil- headed lights under flat lintel; C19 3-light east window with Curvilinear tracery; to north 2 C19 3-light cinquefoiled Curvilinear windows to chancel and vestry. Ashlar coping and gable crosses to nave and chancel. Interior: south arcade of 4 double-chamfered arches dying into octagonal piers without capitals or bases. Low tower arch with almost straight sides. C19 chancel arch with deep hollow mouldings, no capitals, responds on low Perpendicular- type bases, C19 chancel east and north windows shafted internally. In chancel, C14 piscina with ogee-head and flat crockets and letters "TP". Victorian encaustic tiles dated 1878. South aisle: small plain piscina at low level, Victorian encaustic tiles. Lintel to south doorway a reused Anglo-Saxon cross shaft. In south aisle windows, small shields of painted glass in tracery, perhaps medieval. VCH i, p.223.
Listing NGR: SE1039786369
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 321758
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of York: North Riding, (1914), 223
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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