CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, GODNEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175840
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, GODNEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1175840
Date first listed:: 13-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, GODNEY 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:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, GODNEY ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Godney
National Grid Reference:: ST 48533 42495

Details

GODNEY CP GODNEY ROAD (North side) ST44SE UPPER GODNEY 3/43 Church of the Holy Trinity

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Anglican Parish Church. 1839 by G. D. Manners; on a medieval site; restored 1903 with added chancel, by E Buckle. Elue lias ashlar, slate roof, conical to chancel, coped verges, cruciform finial, gabled stone bellcote on ridge at West end. Nave, South porch, apsidal chancel; Romanesque. Three bay nave with semi-circular head windows in freestone surrounds, freestone imposts, and continuous band set over the voussoirs; projecting pilaster strips to each end and between the bays; set on a plinth; corbel table below eaves. West end with interlaced arcading, 2 small semi-circular head windows, shafted 2-light windows set over. Chancel with an arcade of 7 lancets set high up, inside shafted rere arches. Porch with a semi- circular head outer door opening, chevron moulding, paired detached shafts with cushion capitals, plank door with elaborate strap hinges; inner door opening is similar. Plastered interior on wood block and tile floors. Nave with an arch-braced queen-strut collar and tie beam roof, chancel with a ribbed and plastered ceiling. Chancel arch of 2 recessed orders, the inner supported on scalloped corbels; to each side a medieval stone plaque with an emblem, to left a lamb, to right an eagle. Font in the form of an elaborate Romanesque column. Pine pews with shaped ends, 2 readers and a pulpit of 1903, the latter in Art-Noveau style; brass and wrought-iron lectern. Chancel with a piscina. Gabled tablet of 1780 to Jeanes Adams Bowen with achievement. Marble plaque by Rawling of Shepton Mallet. Royal arms. Remains of some stained glass of C15 to nave; remainder of windows with leaded lights. (Pevsner N, Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958).

Listing NGR: ST4853342495

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Legacy System number:: 267756
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)

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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.