Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, NEW CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270210
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, NEW CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1270210
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 19-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, NEW CHURCH ROAD
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, NEW CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Ulverston
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 28468 78106
Details
SD 2878,
626-1/3/94
ULVERSTON,
NEW CHURCH ROAD, Church of Holy Trinity
(Formerly Listed as: NEW CHURCH LANE, Church of Holy Trinity)
20/06/72
II
Church, converted for use as sports centre, and disused at
time of survey. 1829-32. By Salvin. Interior re-ordered and
chancel added 1870 by Paley and Austin. Limestone rubble with
sandstone dressings and slate roofs.
PLAN: comprises a nave, north and south aisles, a north-west
tower with stone spire, and a lower chancel. EXTERIOR: The aisles are of
5 bays separated by buttresses and have chamfered
lancet windows. The western bay of the south aisle contains a
doorway. On the north side the 4th bay from the west contains
a doorway below a window. At the west end there is a triple
stepped lancet window above a moulded pointed doorway. The
tower has angle buttresses, a band of trefoils above paired
lancet bell openings, and corner pinnacles. The spire is
ribbed. The chancel has one trefoiled light to north and
south, and a triple stepped lancet east window.
INTERIOR: sub-divided by the insertion of walls of concrete
block and of studwork and plasterboard, and by insertion of
false ceilings. The front of the west gallery (added by Paley
and Austin) has been removed. Above ceiling level the 5-bay
nave arcades of moulded pointed arches springing from
octagonal piers with moulded caps can be seen. The chancel
arch is moulded, and there is a moulded arch spanning the nave
near its west end. The flat ceiling has tie beams carried on
corbelled brackets.
FITTINGS: The chancel contains a sedilia with twin seats, a
piscina, and a reredos of marble and alabaster.
STAINED GLASS: the west and east windows, and some of the
aisle windows, contain stained glass. One north aisle window
is said to be by Morris and another by Kempe.
Listing NGR: SD2846878106
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 459995
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Rimmer, Reverend J S, The Story of Ulverston, (1925), 14
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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