Parish Church of Holy Trinity
PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213864
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1213864
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Parish Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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:
- PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 48047 94288
Details
SY 49 SE BRADPOLE BRADPOLE VILLAGE
2/47 Parish Church of Holy Trinity
GV II Parish Church. 1845-6 with a spire added in 1863, and north-east chapel/vestry of 1897 by C E Ponting. Dressed stone walls. Slate roof with stone gable-copings, with crosses at nave and chancel gables. West Tower, Nave with south porch, north aisle, Chancel and north-east vestry. Tower of 3 stages with diagonal buttresses and plain parapet. Roll-moulds for strings. Heavily moulded west doorway with pointed head. 2-leaf plank door with strap-hinges. Single square-headed light to ringing chamber and 2 lancet lights to the bell-chamber. Spire of pyramidal form, of wooden shingles. Woodlucarnes with steep gables, one to each side. Nave of 4 bays each divided by buttresses each with 2 set-offs. Keeled roll- moulding beneath windows and also at springing, carried over as hoods. Windows are single lancets with a deep chamfer. South Porch, with pointed-arch entrance and moulded jambs. Returned label over. Inner door has 2-leaf plank door with ornamental hinges. Chancel: 2 bays of lancets with cusped heads and separate labels over. Priest's door, on south side, with pointed head. East window of 3 stepped lancets. North-east Vestry, gabled to east end, with coupled pointed lights to east with quatrefoil heads. North door has a small stone porch with a pointed arch dying into jambs and ogival parapet moulding. North aisle, 4 bays under a pentice slate roof, with straight-chamfered lancets and buttresses between. Interior: north arcade of 4 bays with octagonal piers and moulded capitals. High pointed arches with straight-chamfered and quadrant mouldings. Roof of arch-braced collar type carried on stone corbels, trefoiled above collar. Rafters planked-in and imitation wind-bracing. Chancel-arch with double-responds, moulded capitals and head. Fittings: font, chamfered octagonal bowl with moulded necking, C15 with modern repair. Stem and base are Cl9/C2O. Pulpit: stone, octagonal, with star of Jerusalem and IHS on front panels, cl9. Head of a C15 window of 3 cinquefoiled lights with panel tracery, fixed to the west wall. Fresco of Christ in Majesty above chancel-arch by W G Rich, Cl9. RQfIM Dorset I, p 36(1).
Listing NGR: SY4804794288
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 398511
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 36
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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