Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176255
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, MAIN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1176255
- Date first listed:
- 22-Nov-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 13-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, MAIN STREET
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Walton
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 46135 36314
Details
WALTON CP MAIN STREET (South side) ST43NE
5/99 Church of The Holy Trinity (previously listed as Walton Church (Holy Trinity)) 22.11.66
GV II
Anglican Parish Church. 1866 by John Norton with Rev. J. F. Turner; carved work by Seymour of Taunton. Squared rubble, freestone dressings, many 2-stage buttresses with offsets, tile roofs with fishscale banding and crested ridges, lean-to slate roof to aisle, coped verges with cruciform finials. Nave with South porch, North aisle, chancel with North vestry, tower abutting North-East end of aisle. Mannered Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles. Three-stage tower, diagonal buttresses, lancets to bell-chamber, clock to North face, pyramidal slate roof added 1886 with weathervane. Three bay nave, 2 and 3-light windows, flowing tracery, labels, some with foliate stops, some with stops carved as heads; 4-light West window, ball-flower decoration; the 2-bay chancel in conforming style, 2-light windows, 3-light East window, priests door. Three bay aisle, 3-light windows with 4-centred heads. Lofty interior with overpainted polychromatic banding executed in brick, tile and encaustic tile pavements. Wagon roof to nave; lean-to roof on foliate corbels to aisle; collar-beam roof to chancel with cusped struts. Three-bay arcade to aisle with 4-shafted columns; chamfered chancel arch with ball-flower decoration. Recuabant C14 figure in aisle. Two Jacobean chairs, an altar-table and a chest. C18 bench. Elaborate font with detached marble shafts the gift of the Thynne family. Stone pulpit. Brass and wood altar rail; good altar table in Early English style. Three wall monuments, one in brass. Bell of 1637. (Pevsner N., Buildings of England, South and West Somerset, 1958; The Central Somerset Gazette, May 5 1866: the Building News, 6th March, 1891).
Listing NGR: ST4613536314
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 267807
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South and West Somerset, (1958)
The Central Somerset Gazette in 5 May, (1866)
Building News in 6 March, (1891)
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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