Church of the Holy Trinity

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SP 49 SW TOWN OF HINCKLEY TRINITY VICARAGE ROAD (south side) 13/57 Church of the Holy Trinity

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Church. 1909-10 by Alexander Ellis of Birmingham in a Gothic style; baptistery completed 1930. Random rubble with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs with stone coped verges. 5-bay nave with apsidal west baptistery, north-west and south-west porches and a south aisle; 2-bay chancel with south vestry and organ chamber. It was intended to build a north aisle and tower but the church was never completed. The bay divisions of the south aisle are marked by buttresses surmounted by cast iron rainwater heads. Each bay is under a gable and has a pointed 3-light window with Decorated tracery and a trefoil opening in the gable. The clerestory has pointed 2-light windows, a cyma reversa moulded cornice and pinnacles at the corners. The south porch is gabled and has a pointed arch on cylindrical shafts. It is matched on the north side by an identical porch, and hard up against this is the stub of the west wall of the intended north aisle. Also on this side, at the east end of the nave, is a buttress surmounted by a small timber framed bell cote containing a single bell. The west end is finished with an apsidal baptistery with small lancet windows. Like that of the nave the north wall of the chancel is blind and it was evidently intended that there should be an attached building here. The pointed east window has 5 lights and Decorated tracery, and there is a trefoil opening in the gable above. The vestry and organ chamber on the south side are gabled to the east and south and the porch within the re-entrant angle of this L-shaped plan, has an openwork parapet and a doorway with Caernarvon arch. Interior: 5-bay nave arcades of pointed arches on cylindrical columns, each with 4 banded shafts and moulded base. The capitals of the south arcade are very richly carved with naturalistic foliage; each one is different and the models used include roses and thistles, oak leaves and acorns, vine leaves and bunches of grapes and ears of corn together with a serpent and birds. The capitals of the blind north arcade are left uncarved but were clearly intended to be treated as their counterparts to the south. At the west end of the nave is a lower 3-bay arcade, also with naturalistic capitals and banded shafts, which leads to the baptistery with a polygonal apse. A double chamfered chancel arch springs from a pair of corbelled cylindrical shafts with capitals; these too have naturalistic foliage. To each side of the chancel are 2-bay arcades like those of the nave but on a smaller scale; again the north arcade is blind. Wooden barrel-vaults over the nave and chancel on a series of thin transverse ribs which spring from shafted corbels, with naturalistic foliage in the chancel but left uncarved in the nave. The window rear-arches spring from shafts and have returned hood moulds. Fixtures and fittings: Font with octagonal basin on cylindrical shaft with octagonal steps in the baptistery. Simple bench pews in the nave, and choir stalls with openwork poppyheads. Octagonal stone pulpit on a cylindrical base with multiple shafting; the sides have Decorated tracery. Brass lectern with cylindrical shaft on inverted funnel-shaped base with clawed feet; the shaft is inscribed with Romanesque patterns; foliage brackets to an openwork book rest. Altar rail on wrought iron legs.

2 sedilia with cinquefoil heads on cylindrical shafts with carved capitals. Piscina in the same style, and common hood mould over both. Simple wooden reredos with cinquefoil arcading. Stained glass: High quality throughout. East window of after 1931 with Jesus the Good Shepherd in the centre and Saint Peter and Dorcas to the right and Saints John and Paul to the left. In the south aisle, second from the east of after 1901, possibly by Kempe and Co.; third from the east of after 1957. The westernmost window of the aisle is a First World War memorial. In the baptistery small windows of (from north to south); 1946, 1936, 1936, 1936, 1942, by A.J. Davies of Bromsgrove, Worcs. B.O.E. p.177.

Listing NGR: SP4232193880

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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Leicestershire and Rutland, (1984), 177

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