Details
NOTTINGHAM
SK53NE CHURCH STREET, Lenton
646-1/7/793 (South East side)
Church of Holy Trinity
GV II*
Parish church. 1842. By HI Stevens. Ashlar, with slate and
concrete tile roofs. Gothic Revival style.
PLAN: chancel, vestry, nave with clerestory, aisles, north
porch, west tower.
EXTERIOR: plinth, sill band, coped parapets and gables,
shallow buttresses. Windows are plain lancets with hood
moulds. Chancel, 3 bays, has a graduated 3-light east window,
and 3 windows to south. Vestry, to north, has a single window
to north and east. Clerestory has 5 windows each side, divided
by pilasters. South aisle has 5 paired windows, and single
windows to east and west. North aisle has 4 paired windows,
and single window to west. North porch has coped gable with
angle buttresses, with double chamfered doorway, and a window
each side. Square west tower, 3 stages, has angle buttresses
and coped parapet with pinnacles. Chamfered west door under a
gable, with single windows east and west. Above, a graduated
3-light window, with single windows north and south. Clock
dials above. Bell stage has triple openings each side, with a
clock to east.
INTERIOR: rendered, has moulded chancel arch with single
lancet above. Nave and chancel have arch braced hammer beam
roofs. East end has a floral stained glass window to Francis
Wright, died 1873, and an elaborate tile and mosaic reredos
with figures, c1902. Wooden altar rail with bowed centre.
North side has organ opening, south side a Tudor arched door.
Nave has 4-bay arcades with quatrefoil piers and double
chamfered arches. In the east bay, an ashlar and marble screen
wall and pulpit, 1902, under a Perpendicular style traceried
wooden screen and crest. At the west end, a 2-tier panelled
gallery and screen, with glazed porches and screens below.
North aisle has stained glass windows 1902, 1911 and 1931.
lancet at east end with organ pipes. South aisle has stained
glass windows 1873, 1897, 1914, and at the east end, 1873.
Fittings include the outstandingly rare cubical font, mid C12,
from Lenton Priory, with elaborate figure carving on 3 sides.
Stepped base, 1904. Late C19 stalls and desks, mid C19
benches. Memorials include 6 marble and slate tablets, C19,
and arch-topped bronze tablet, 1917, to Albert Ball.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Nottinghamshire: London:
1979-: 253-254).
Listing NGR: SK5545539310
