Church of the Holy Trinity

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BRIGGATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149927
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
Church of the Holy Trinity
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BRIGGATE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1149927
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1952
List Entry Name:
Church of the Holy Trinity
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BRIGGATE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BRIGGATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
North Yorkshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Knaresborough
National Grid Reference:
SE 35095 56750

Details

SE 3556 KNARESBOROUGH BRIGGATE (east side, off)

9/68 Church of the Holy Trinity 5.2.52 - II

Church of the Holy Trinity. 1866. Gritstone, Westmorland slate roof. C14 Gothic style. North-west tower, 6-bay aisled nave with clerestory and north porch, 3-bay chancel with north vestry. Tower: 3 stages; off-set angle buttresses; 2 and 3-light windows; tall broach spire with lucarnes. Nave: porch has double board door with strap hinges; 2-light trefoil-headed windows with quatrefoils under hoodmoulds to aisles; 3-light clerestory windows with shafts and lunettes under triple-headed hoodmoulds. Chancel: windows as aisles. Interior: cylindrical arcade piers with foliate capitals support double-chamfered pointed arches with head stops to hoodmoulds. Chancel: roll-moulding at window sill level. Elaborate carved and gilded stone reredos with heads of Apostles and symbols of the Passion. East window flanked by mural paintings of saints and bishops. Piscina and sedilia at east end of north and south walls.

Listing NGR: SE3509556750

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
330731
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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