Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174216
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1174216
- Date first listed:
- 19-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH ROAD
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, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hertfordshire
- District:
- Dacorum (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nettleden with Potten End
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 01713 08937
Details
TL 00 NW NETTLEDEN WITH CHURCH ROAD
POTTEN END (West side)
Potten End
5/192 Church of The Holy Trinity
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GV II
Chapel-of-ease, parish church since 1895. Designed c.1864, contract date
9.3.1865, licensed for services Sept 1865, consecrated 1868, porch 1908.
F.C. Penrose for Earl Brownlow. Builders T. & J. Mathews and William
Nash for £710. Plum brick with red brick and stone dressings and steep
red tiled roofs. A small T-plan church with semi-circular apse, S porch,
N vestry, and bellcote on W gable. Described'as in the Italian Norman
Style. Round-arched windows, stilted 3-light windows lighting nave,
single lights elsewhere with triplets at 2 levels in transepts ends.
Blue brick chamfered course to plinth and red brick corbel table at
eaves level continued across faces of gables with red brickwork above
and stone gable copings with crosses. W gable topped by 2-stage bellcote
with mid-wall shaft to lower opening. Plastered interior over boarded
dado. Open timber roof with arch-braced collar-trusses in pine.
Plastered round-arch with chamfered imposts to apse. 3 stained glass
windows in apse presented by Lady Marion Alford for opening. Simple oak
fittings with one choir stall and lectern by Thompson of Kilburn (the
'mouse-man'). Elaborate S door protected by later matching porch.
Original bell replaced by 3 in 1927. War memorial tablets inserted
externally in S gable of S transept. (Kelly (1914)53: M.J. Smith Holy
Trinity Church, Potten End: Centenary Booklet 1868-1967 (1967): Bryant
(1982) Ch.IX).
Listing NGR: TL0171008940
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 30 October 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 157971
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kelly's Directory in Kelly's Directory, (1914), 53
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/28933
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/28932
War Memorials Register, accessed 30 October 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/28931
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/133626
War Memorials Online, accessed 30 October 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/133628
Other
Smith, MJ , Holy Trinity Church Potten End Centenary Booklet 1868-1967, 1967,
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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