Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BRIMSCOMBE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172221
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BRIMSCOMBE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1172221
- Date first listed:
- 24-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, BRIMSCOMBE HILL
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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, BRIMSCOMBE HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Gloucestershire
- District:
- Stroud (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minchinhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 86644 02092
Details
SO 8602-8702 MINCHINHAMPTON BRIMSSCOMBE HILL
12/213 Church of the Holy Trinity
II
Parish church. 1840 for David Ricardo M.P.; altered 1881. Coursed and squared limestone; Welsh slate and artificial stone slate roofs. Nave without aisles, north east tower and west chancel. Romanesque style. Central round arched doorway to east and with jamb shafts having scalloped capitals; 2 flanking blank arches Five bay blank round arched arcade above. Central circular window with looped tracery. Shallow clasping corner buttresses. Round arched doorway to porch in base of tower. Belfry has stylised lombard frieze below lower string course; 2 round arched recesses to each face with smaller belfry openings within. Corner shafts to belfry. Stone coped pyramidal roof with grotesque corbels, roll mouldings to corners and centre of each face and iron weather-vane finial. Round arched nave windows with zig-zag frieze to eaves. Projecting gabled organ-loft towards west end has round arched window recess with circular window. Romanesque triplet to west end. Interior: 5-bay timber truss roof to nave. Timber panelled balcony at east end. Large round chancel arch has painted lettering: 'The LORD is in His HOLY TEMPLE'. Encaustic tiled chancel floor. Most fittings appear contemporary with construction, organ-loft being an 1881 addition. Some good stained glass: west triplet and 2 nave windows. by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. One of the two churches built by Ricardo after sub- division of Minchinhampton ecclesiastical parish, this exhibits his distaste for Tractarian principals by having the chancel at west end. (N.M. Herbert, 'Minchinhampton' in V.C.H. Glos. xi, 1976, pp. 184- 207; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979)
Listing NGR: SO8664402092
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 133004
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Verey, D, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire 1 The Cotswolds, (1970)
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Gloucester, (1976), 184-207
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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