Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BELL HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204074
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BELL HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1204074
- Date first listed:
- 01-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, BELL HILL
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, BELL HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 61563 75983
Details
BRISTOL
ST6175 BELL HILL, Stapleton 901-1/33/1938 (South East side) 01/11/66 Church of Holy Trinity
GV II*
Church. 1857. By John Norton. Squared Pennant rubble with limestone dressings and slate roof. Aisled nave and west tower. Decorated Gothic Revival style. Tall E window to chancel with reticulated tracery, angle buttresses with gablets and carved mythical animals, and octagonal shafts to crocketed pinnacles. Hemi-hexagonal vestry with sprocketed roof to the N, 3-window range to the S. Weathered coped gable with Celtic cross. 5-bay aisles separated by buttresses; 3-light windows, carved corbel table and open traceried parapet. Steep porch in second bay from W end, with an open lancet doorway with cluster responds, C20 E doorway, stone benches and encaustic tiles. 3-stage tower with angle buttresses, splayed lancet W door with 3 orders and ball flowers, ogee hood with crockets and foliate finial and bishop's and king's head stops; 2-leaf door with traceried upper panels. 3-light first-floor windows, W clock with wooden hood on brackets, belfry lights with open tracery, corbel table and open traceried parapet, buttress pinnacles and gargoyles; stair tower in the corner with N aisle. Crocketed hexagonal broach spire with lucarnes and metal cross finial. INTERIOR: 3-bay chancel, open to the N organ chamber, with marble cluster columns and painted foliate capitals; alabaster reredos and marble floor; arched roof with moulded panels and angel corbels. 5-bay nave has piers with attached shafts and moulded capitals and hoods with foliate stops; moulded sill band beneath the aisle windows; arch-braced roof with wall posts to carved corbels in the nave, and cross-braced aisle roofs. W arch to narthex. FITTINGS: 3 rows of choir stalls in chancel with angel and poppy heads. Stone pulpit with ramped, curved steps. Alabaster font on brown marble shafts decorated with ogee arches and angels. Glass: S chancel window by Kempe 1887. The church commands a strong position and is considered one of the City's best Victorian churches. Norton was an influential local Ecclesiological architect, several of whose churches have been demolished. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 304; Crick C: Victorian Buildings in Bristol: Bristol: 1975-: 20).
Listing NGR: ST6156375983
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378941
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 304
Crick, C, Victorian Buildings in Bristol, (1975), 20
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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