Church of the Holy Trinity

CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, ASHTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201706
Date first listed:
23-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:
Church of the Holy Trinity
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, ASHTON ROAD
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201706
Date first listed:
23-Jul-1992
List Entry Name:
Church of the Holy Trinity
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, ASHTON ROAD

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, ASHTON ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Oldham (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SD 92919 01859

Details

OLDHAM

SD90SW ASHTON ROAD, Bardsley 780-1/3/12 (West side) 23/07/92 Church of the Holy Trinity

II

Parish church. 1844. By Starkey and Cuffley. Coursed and squared rusticated rubble with Welsh slate roofs. West tower, nave with 2 aisles and transepts, chancel with vestries each side. Heavy Romanesque style. 3-stage west tower with round-arched doorway with triple stepped shafts and interlaced lancet tracery and windows above, then clock. 2-light round-arched roll-moulded bell-chamber lights. Heavy strap-work to parapet. Clasping buttresses form pinnacles. Round-arched western aisle windows, with chevron moulding following line of parapet above. Each aisle divided into 4 bays, each with a shallow segmental arch sprung between pilasters, containing a single round-arched windows with shafts and chevron moulding to continuous hood mould. Similar wider segmental arch housing west windows of transepts. Triple light north and south windows to transepts with plain roll-moulding, and rose-window in gable apexes. Gabled vestries each side of chancel, that to south possibly a later addition. Stepped round-arched east windows to chancel with plain moulding. Billet moulding following line of parapet over. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner, Nikolaus: South Lancashire: Harmondsworth: 1969-).

Listing NGR: SD9291901859

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
388874
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: South Lancashire, (1969)

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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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