CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, THE GREEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159322
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, THE GREEN

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Date:: 2003-04-30
Reference:: IOE01/10724/11
Rights:: © Mr Bob Cottrell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1159322
Date first listed:: 09-Jan-1968
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, THE GREEN

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, THE GREEN

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

District:: County Durham (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Cornforth
National Grid Reference:: NZ 31254 34482

Details

NZ 33 SW CORNFORTH THE GREEN (West side)

7/16 Church of the 9/1/68 Holy Trinity

GV II

Parish church, 1867 by J.P. Pritchett. Polychrome brick with ashlar dressings; blue and green slate roof with stone gable copings. Nave with south porch; chancel with north vestry. Early English style. Gabled porch has double boarded doors, with elaborate hinges on roll-moulded surround with shafts with water-leaf capitals. Stone cross finial. Plate tracery in 2-light windows of 4-bay nave, with buttress between 2 eastern bays. Set-back chancel has 2 plainer windows, and large 3-light east window with plate tracery. All windows have recessed chamfered surrounds, and dark brick arches with dark impost string. Large 6-foil west window. Head-stopped dripmoulds to doors. Buttresses, gabled to chancel. Small alteration to north-east buttresses - insertion of pipe to allow clear sight-line from vestry to gates, for view of arrival of funerals, it is said. Some renewal of bricks at east. Roof steeply-pitched, with east gabled bellcote on nave; cross finials on gable copings.

Interior painted brick, with painted ashlar dressings; arch-braced roof on stone corbels; waggon roof in chancel. Roll-moulded chancel arch on square pilasters with elaborately-carved capitals to shafts. Head-stops to dripmould over vestry door; chamfered organ arch. All carving now painted in vivid colours. Star of David symbol of Trinity in west window by L.C. Evetts. Octagonal stone font with symbols of Evangelists carved in recessed panels. Elaborately-carved altar with painted relief panels in Gothic style. Reredos reconstituted and sculptures added to altar circa 1913 (brass plaque signed Herbert Wauthie del., F. Osborne and Co. London).

Listing NGR: NZ3125434482

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

Legacy System number:: 112222
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.