Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269808
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1269808
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE 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:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wistanstow
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 43224 85591
Details
WISTANSTOW
SO48NW Church of The Holy Trinity 1943-1/6/162 12/11/54
GV II*
Parish church. C12. Sandstone rubble; plain tile roof. Cruciform on plan, with crossing-tower. EXTERIOR: south doorway to chancel with dogtooth ornamented arch on attached columns with enriched capitals. Tower: probably C14, with later superstructure; sundial; weather-vane. Nave: thick walls with splayed lancets; blocked opening over south doorway, which has studded plank door and wrought-iron hinges, and lock dated: PCW 1696; blocked north doorway under altered opening with lancet. INTERIOR: north transept: roof with trussed rafters with raking braces. South transept: roof with moulded queen-post trusses and cusped windbraces. Nave roof: moulded trusses and purlins with quatrefoil windbracing, and moulded wood ashlar pieces with enriched panelling. Tablets: James family, 1775; Swainson, 1835; Cooke, 1766. Late C18 box-pews to transepts; C14 font. Slabs to Richard James (1727) and others. C17 texts with enriched borders in south transept.
Listing NGR: SO4322485591
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 460393
- 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.
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