Church of Holy Trinity and Attached Boundary Wall
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, WESTGATE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214569
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, WESTGATE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1214569
- Date first listed:
- 09-Feb-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-May-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity and Attached Boundary Wall
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, WESTGATE
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 AND ATTACHED BOUNDARY WALL, WESTGATE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Nottinghamshire
- District:
- Newark and Sherwood (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Southwell
- National Grid Reference:
- SK 69689 53510
Details
SOUTHWELL
WESTGATE
SK6953
1919-0/10/194 (South side)
09/02/73 Church of Holy Trinity and attached
boundary wall
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTGATE
Church of the Holy Trinity)
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTGATE
Churchyard walls and 4 sets of gate
piers)
II
Parish church and attached boundary wall. 1844. By Weightman &
Hadfield of Sheffield. Ashlar with slate roofs. Early English
style. West tower with spire, nave with clerestorey and
aisles, north porch, vestry, chancel. 3-stage west tower has
double chamfered plinth, 3 string courses, trefoiled corbel
table to bell stage, gabled angle buttresses to west. To
south-east, octagonal stair turret with pyramidal roof. West
side has moulded doorway with cusped head and single shafts
and C20 door. Above it a single lancet. South side has a
single chamfered square casement. Second stage has a single
lancet to north and south, with hood moulds. Bell stage has on
each side a moulded bell opening with hood mould, containing
an unglazed double lancet. Octagonal broach spire has 3 tiers
of gabled lucarnes on alternate sides, finial and weathercock.
5 bay nave has coped east gable with chimney stack to south
east, and on each side, 5 pairs of cusped lancets. Oval window
in east gable. Buttressed aisles, 5 bays, have chamfered
plinths, sill bands, single lancets with linked hood moulds,
moulded corbels and coped ends, each with a single lancet.
North aisle has porch to west, with 3 lancets to left and one
to right. Porch has coped gable with flanking buttresses,
double chamfered doorway with filleted shafts and hood mould,
and a single lancet in each side. South aisle has regular
fenestration. Vestry, forming a single bay continuation to the
aisle, has a lancet at the east end. 2 bay chancel has plinth,
coped east gable and gabled angle buttresses. All the openings
have hood moulds. North side has a lancet to left and a door
to right. South side has a single lancet to right. East end
has 3 graduated single lancets and above, an oval window.
Rendered interior has common rafter roof with strutted collars
, and lean-to roofs to aisles. Nave has 5-bay arcades, the 2
south west bays being blocked. Round piers, plain capitals,
double chamfered arches and hood moulds. Clerestorey sill
band. Double chamfered tower arch with round shafts. North
aisle has memorial windows, 1892, 1914 and 1918. South aisle
has memorial windows 1890, 1912 and 1917. Chancel has plain
double chamfered arch with round piers, moulded capitals and
bases. Each side has a chamfered door and a memorial window,
1905 and 1906. East end has a full-width blind arcade with
cusped openings and single shafts, the 3 centre bays with
crocketed gables. Above, 3 lancets with shafts and linked hood
mould. Stained glass 1894. Fittings include elaborate
traceried oak pulpit with figure carving , traceried panelled
octagonal font with marble shafts, oak eagle lectern,
traceried screen resited in south aisle, plain benches.
Memorials include Classical marble tablet, 1878, and alabaster
war memorial tablet, 1919. Outside, ashlar boundary wall to
north east. Stepped gabled coping and near central pair of
square gatepiers with pyramidal caps and wrought iron gate.
Approx.20M long.
Listing NGR: SK6968953510
This List entry has been amended to add sources for War Memorials Online and the War Memorials Register. These sources were not used in the compilation of this List entry but are added here as a guide for further reading, 29 August 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 242499
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
War Memorials Register, accessed 29 August 2017 from http://www.iwm.org.uk/memorials/item/memorial/27453
War Memorials Online, accessed 29 August 2017 from https://www.warmemorialsonline.org.uk/memorial/190598
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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