Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, JAMES STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139850
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, JAMES STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1139850
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, JAMES 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, JAMES STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Middlesbrough (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 50974 19952
Details
MIDDLESBROUGH JAMES STREET NZ 51 NW (5119) (north side), North
Ormesby. 4/43 Church of the Holy Trinity. - II Church, 1868/69, with tower 1880/81, by William White (London); Allison Bros., builders. Extended 1879 by Armfield and Bottomley; Lady chapel 1925; south-west porch 1929. Nave and chancel gutted by fire 1977. Brick; Welsh slate roof. South-west tower, remains of nave arcades, north and south aisles and porch. Early English style. Double-chamfered plinth, angle buttresses and buttresses between bays. 5-stage tower has slightly-projecting west porch, with renewed double doors under blocked fanlight, in 5-stepped round-headed surround. Brass tablet in cusped niche in left buttress records building, architect and builder. 2-stage vice at south-west angle. Round-headed windows in lower 3 stages; 4th stage has tall deeply-recessed bell openings with louvres in 4-stepped surrounds. Clock faces in similar wide round-headed surrounds in 5th stage. Hoodmoulds, and strings between stages. Straight parapet and octagonal pyramidal-roofed bartizans at angles, with blind round-headed windows, moulded cornices and crocket finials. 5-bay south aisle and 4-bay north aisle, with paired cusped windows. North has boarded double doors in round-headed opening in 3rd bay; south has similar in pointed surround in 4th bay and late-C20 7-light mullioned window in 5th bay. One-bay porch has boarded double doors in canted west return. INTERIOR : 3-bay nave arcades of 2 hollow-chamfered orders on piers keeled at angles, with carved foliate stone capitals and chamfered bases; round responds and continuous hoodmould. boarded doors at east ends of aisles. Octagonal marble font on chamfered square base. Late-C20 church adjoining east end, on site of original chancel, is not of special interest. Tower is important local landmark. Included for townscape value of tower.
Listing NGR: NZ5097419952
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 59739
- 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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