CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231814
- Date first listed:
- 14-Feb-1985
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH LANE
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Location
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- County Durham (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Murton
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 39296 46962
Details
NZ 34 NE EAST MURTON CHURCH LANE
(North side)
3/13 Church of the Holy Trinity
II
Parish church. 1876-7 by C. Hodgson Fowler. Chancel added 1886. Snecked rock-faced
sandstone with ashlar quoins and buttresses. Steeply-pitched Welsh slate roofs.
Nave, south porch, north and south transepts and chancel. Early English style with
plate-tracery windows.
West end has diagonal buttresses and a pair of 2-light lancet windows separated by
a stepped buttress. Quatrefoil in gable. South porch has half-timbered gable with
bargeboards. Nave: 4 bays divided by stepped buttresses; each window has 3 stepped
lancets in chamfered reveals under a pointed hoodmould. Single-bay north and south
transepts have similar windows. Slightly lower and narrower single-bay chancel has
angle buttresses and a similar large 3-light window in east end. Square louvred
bellcote with steep spirelet at west end.
Interior: aisles were intended for the nave but only the north arcade was built
with the north wall abutting directly against it. Arcade has 4 pointed arches dying
into octagonal piers. Hammerbeam nave roof. Double-chamfered pointed chancel arch.
2 steps up to chancel which has a trefoil-headed piscina in south wall and a barrel
roof. 2 good quality stained glass windows: east window of 1905 by A.L. Moore of
London; window dated 1927 in north wall of nave by A.L. and C.E. Moore of London.
This church occupies a prominent position and is listed partly for its townscape
value.
Listing NGR: NZ3929646962
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407054
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
End of official listing
