Church of the Holy Trinity
Church of the Holy Trinity, Hartshill Road, Hartshill
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195800
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Hartshill Road, Hartshill
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195800
- Date first listed:
- 19-Apr-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of the Holy Trinity, Hartshill Road, Hartshill
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, Hartshill Road, Hartshill
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Stoke-on-Trent (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 86545 45835
Details
SJ 8645 SE
613-1/9/66
STOKE ON TRENT
HARTSHILL
Hartshill Road (north side)
Church of the Holy Trinity
19/04/72
GV
II*
Parish church. 1842. By George Gilbert Scott and Moffatt. Stone with plain tiled roof with scalloped bands. Decorated style, with west tower and spire, nave with two aisles and clerestory, chancel.
Four-stage west tower with clasping buttresses terminating in pinnacles. West door with paired shafts to triple chamfered arch. Three-light window over, then an oculus. Paired bell chamber lights. Trefoiled frieze below parapet. Spire with two tiers of lucarnes. South porch with shafts to moulded arch repeated on inner doorway.
Nave of four bays divided by gableted buttresses, each with a two-light traceried window. Corbels support projecting parapet. Low clerestory above, with quatrefoil windows. Ornate chancel: shafts with foliate capitals and hoodmoulds to windows.
INTERIOR: high arcade of five bays with clusters shafts carrying rib vaulted ceiling. Encaustic floor tiles throughout and tiled dado with high glazed frieze and quatrefoil memorial tiles inset. Original pews with poppy-head bench ends. Deep-moulded chancel arch. Wood reredos with interlace in panelling and riddle posts, installed as war memorial. Painted panelled ceiling to chancel, and vaulted roof over apse. Early medieval style stained glass to chancel, with small lozenges containing scenes, and Mannerist style glass in south aisle of 1902-4.
The church was endowed by Herbert Minton.
Listing NGR: SJ8654545835
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 384418
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1963)
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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