HOLY TIRNITY CHURCH (CHURCH OF ENGLAND)

HOLY TIRNITY CHURCH (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), COTTERED ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1175183
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: HOLY TIRNITY CHURCH (CHURCH OF ENGLAND)
Statutory Address:: HOLY TIRNITY CHURCH (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), COTTERED ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1175183
Date first listed:: 22-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: HOLY TIRNITY CHURCH (CHURCH OF ENGLAND)
Statutory Address 1:: HOLY TIRNITY CHURCH (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), COTTERED ROAD

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:: HOLY TIRNITY CHURCH (CHURCH OF ENGLAND), COTTERED ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Cottered
National Grid Reference:: TL 33836 30165

Details

TL 33 SW COTTERED COTTERED ROAD (south side) THROCKING

1/5 Holy Trinity Church (C of E) 22.2.67

GV II*

Parish church (parish amalgamated with Cottered in 1932). Lower part of tower C13, early C15 perpendicular nave and chancel in one volume (former chancel demolished), C15 S porch, brick upper part of tower 1660 (panel on S face) for Sir Thomas Soame, restoration in mid C19 for Rev. Wm. Adams with steeply pitched roof and additional matching pews, organ chamber and vestry added c1879 and organ, pulpit, lectern, and new glazing installed. Flint rubble plastered with stone dressings to nave and chancel, base courses of tower in coursed unknapped flint and pebbles, knapped flint facing around windows, with stone quoins and dressings. Vestry extension in knapped flint. Upper part of tower in red brick with stone quoins and moulded brick details. Steep slated roofs, old red tiled porch. A small church with W tower and gabled vestry/organ projection on N side. Diagonal stone buttresses with flint flushwork, to W of nave and E of chancel. Chancel separated by one step from the nave with 3- light C15 traceried E window and stained glass Good Shepherd c1879 by Clayton & Bell. On N wall small original door now to vestry, and C19 stone screen to organ. Tall single light C14 window on S wall with C15 traceried head. A C17 poppy-head on benches in chancel has carving of acrobats. Nave has a C15 2- light traceried window with ferramenta in N and S wall and C15 S doorway with moulded jambs and 4-centred arch under a square label and carved spandrels. 6 consecration crosses painted at irregular intervals along each wall, polychrome tile floors, and steep 5-bay timber roof with hammer-beams and arch-braced collars. C15 tower arch with shafted jambs, moulded capitals, and 4-centred head. Unbuttressed square tower with C13 deeply splayed lancet window on N and S side at base and C15 3-light traceried W windows. A moulded, gauged brick floor band and ovolo moulded eaves band define the red brick upper part of 1660 with its stone quoins, polygonal SW turret on an ogee moulded corbel, round arched opening in each face (Y-tracery remains on W & E sides), plain parapet with stumps of corner pinnacles, and moulded brick date panel on S with shouldered architrave and scrolls. Gabled S porch with some flushwork diagon buttresses and moulded stone plinth continuing around nave and chancel. 4- centred arched entrance with moulded jambs and square label. Graffiti on jambs of S door. Single-light window in E wall. Clasped-purlin roof. Fittings include a C15 octagonal clunch font with panelled stem and sides, C17 benches in nave (with C19 copies), fine heraldic floor slabs to Thomas Soame 1670 and Robert Elwes 1752, fine pedimented inscription tablet to Robert Elwes 1753 by Rysbrack with Rococo cartouche and coat of arms beneath, on W wall a fine broken pedimented marble monument to Robert Elwes 1731, and on N wall a neo-Grecian marble monument to Hester Elwes 1770 by Nollekens with seated female by an urn. A small late medieval church with unusual W tower and fine C18 monuments. (RCHM (1912) 220-1: VCH (1914) 113-4: Chuck N A [Guide to Holy Trinity Church, Throcking (1977) priv. print).

Listing NGR: TL3383630165

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 159865
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Chuck, N A, Guide to Holy Trinity Church Trocking, (1977)
Doubleday, AH, The Victoria History of the County of Hertford, (1914), 113-4
Other
Inventory of the Historical Monuments of Hertfordshire, (1910)

Legal

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