Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195367
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195367
- Date first listed:
- 16-Jan-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH LANE
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 HOLY TRINITY, BASWICH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Stafford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 94388 22297
Details
STAFFORD
SJ92SW BASWICH LANE, Baswich 590-1/2/103 (West side) 16/01/51 Church of Holy Trinity
GV II*
Church. C13 chancel arch; C15 tower with C18 bell stage; 1740 nave and chancel; late C20 transepts and north vestry. MATERIALS: brick with ashlar dressings and tile roof; ashlar tower and brick transepts and vestry. EXTERIOR: chancel has ashlar plinth, quoins and impost band, coped gable; round-headed window has ashlar sill, brick apron, and ashlar arch with key. Transepts have narrow full-height lights. 4-bay nave has similar details to chancel, but with Medieval diagonal buttresses and ashlar wall ends to west , entrance to left end of south side has boldly rusticated Tuscan surround and paired 4-fielded-panel doors, round window above has lower half blocked; north side has blind windows with lunettes. Tower has 2 diagonal buttresses; blocked west entrance with inserted window; 3-light window with simple Perpendicular tracery, south entrance up brick and ashlar stair, which continues to segmental-headed gallery entrance; round-headed louvred bell openings with keys; top cornice and coped parapet. INTERIOR: chancel has 2 king-post trusses with paired struts; ceiled transepts have diagonal buttresses to chancel arch, with has primitive capitals and Early English double-chamfered arch; nave is ceiled, with west gallery on 4 iron columns in square, the centre projecting; fielded panelling to sill level. FITTINGS: chancel has C18 altar rails to 3 sides with spiral balusters and moulded rails; north transept has ex-situ Levett family pew of 1812 raised on iron columns with stick-baluster stair, 3 panels and cornice; nave has C18 3-decker pulpit with fielded panelling. MONUMENTS: Brian and Jehanna Fowler, 1587, ex-situ painted chest tomb with tapering square balusters and shields, lettering to cornice; several C18 and C19 wall tablets to Fowler and Chetwynd families; bequest board dated 1733 and 1830. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Nairn J: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: 248; Shell Guides: Thorold H: Staffordshire, A Shell Guide: London: 1978-: 157).
Listing NGR: SJ9438822297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383921
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974)
Thorold, H, Shell County Guides in Staffordshire, (1978), 157
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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