Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH DRIVE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192788
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH DRIVE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1192788
- Date first listed:
- 29-Mar-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH DRIVE
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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 DRIVE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Rotherham (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Wentworth
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 38387 98141
Details
SK39NE WENTWORTH CHURCH DRIVE (south side)
4/64 Church of the Holy Trinity 29.3.68 GV II*
Church. Built 1872-76, consecrated 1877. By J. L. Pearson for the children of Charles William, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam and his wife Mary in memory of their parents. Thinly-coursed and snecked sandstone, ashlar dressings, tile roof. Cruciform plan orientated north-west/ south-east (ritual orientation used here). 4½-bay aisled nave with north porch; crossing tower with spire; 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Gothic revival: late C13 style, geometrical tracery. Plinth, moulded band and string course run round building rising with ground to south. Offset buttresses between bays and at angles. Hoodmoulds with delicate stops. Gable copings with crosses. Nave: north porch approached by steps within ashlar wing walls; iron gate; tripartite responds to moulded arches with dog-tooth ornament; foiled side-wall openings; rib-vaulted roof. Aisle bays to left each have two 2-light windows. Small turret to right in angle with porch. Clerestorey: pilaster buttresses, 3-light windows, carved eaves band. Transepts: lower, each with 6-light window and small rose window to gable. Tower: two 2-light gallery windows flank abutting transept roofs. Clock and offset band beneath coupled, 2-light, louvred belfry openings. String course with corner gargoyles beneath embattled parapet. Recessed broach spire with lucarnes and weathervane. Cylindrical stair-turret to south-east corner with arcaded panel beneath conical cap. Chancel: single-storey north vestry with 2, square-headed, 3-light windows; priest's door to right. 3-light windows to chancel; east window of 5 lights beneath rose window.
Interior: Nave:4-bay arcades with compound piers and moulded arches. Attached columns rise from arcade capitals to springing of vault ribs. Clerestorey windows flanked by blind windows all within arched recess. Crossing: arches with dog-tooth ornament; gallery with 2 twin arches to each side; octopartite vault. Exposed stone rib-vaulting throughout. Dedication of church carved in bold letters at west end beneath stained- glass window by C. E. Kempe. Decorative frieze beneath clerestorey. Chancel has marble steps and paving. East window, 1888, by Clayton and Bell. Fitzwilliam brasses beneath south transept window.
A. P. Quiney, 'Wentworth Churches', Archaeological Journal, vol 137, 1980, p396.
Listing NGR: SK3838798141
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 335572
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Archaeological Journal in Archaeological Journal, Vol. 137, (1980), 396
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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