HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205493
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
Statutory Address:: HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1205493
Date first listed:: 01-Feb-1967
List Entry Name:: HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, MAIN STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, MAIN STREET

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

County:: Lincolnshire
District:: North Kesteven (District Authority)
Parish:: Martin
National Grid Reference:: TF 12121 59978

Details

MARTIN MAIN STREET TF 15 NW (north side) 6/21 Holy Trinity Church 1.2.67 - II

Parish Church. 1876, tower built 1911, by T H Wyatt. Rock faced limestone with ashlar dressings. C20 tile roofs with ashlar coped gables, moulded kneelers and finials. Flush ashlar quoins, chamfered plinth and chamfered cill band. Angle buttresses with set-offs. South west tower, nave, transepts and chancel, with north organ chamber and south vestry. West front has 2 pairs of tall lancets, with a wheel window above, and a small lancet in the gable. The north front has a single lancet, then 2 pairs of lancets. The north transept has 2 single lancets, with a single central lancet above, and a small quatrefoil in the gable. The organ chamber has a tall ornate chimney stack. The octagonal, apsidal east end has single small outer lancets, and pairs of inner lancets. The vestry has a single 2-light mullion window and a Caernarvon arched priest door. The south transept has 2 single lancets, with a single central lancet above, and a small quatrefoil in the gable. The south aisle has 2 pairs of lancets, and the western bay contains the projecting 3 stage tower, incorporating a porch. The tower has a moulded and double chamfered plinth, chamfered stage bands, angle buttresses with set-offs, and is topped with gargoyles, stepped battlements and a pyramidal slate roof with an ornate weather vane. The south face has a pointed arched doorway, with inner chamfered arch and moulded outer arch supported on block shafts, with moulded bases and foliate capitals, with C19 double doors. Above a 2-light pointed arched window with Y- tracery. Above again a pair of bell openings with cusped pointed lights, repeated on all 4 sides. The east face has a single small lancet on the ground floor, and the west face has a projecting octagonal stair turret in the re-entrant angle with 2 small slit windows and a stone cap. All the windows have chamfered ashlar surrounds. The inner porch doorway, is pointed arched with a roll moulded inner arch and a double chamfered outer arch, and double plank doors. Interior: double chamfered transept arches, and chamfered chancel arch. Wooden scissor braced roof. Wooden pews, pulpit and choir stalls, fine stone font. Cusped piscina. 3 small stain glass windows.

Listing NGR: TF1212159978

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Legacy System number:: 358292
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.