PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1279224
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1960
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1279224
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1960
List Entry Name:: PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: PARISH CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Swyre
National Grid Reference:: SY 52808 88238

Details

SY 58 NW SWYRE SWYRE VILLAGE

6/251 Parish Church of Holy Trinity 5-9-60

GV I

Parish Church. C15 west tower and chancel-arch. Nave and chancel rebuilt in 1843. Vestry and organ-chamber added in 1885. Shallow rubble-stone walls. Slate roofs with stone gable-copings and fleur-de-lis apex-blocks. West Tower, Nave, North Porch, Chancel. West Tower 2 stages with diagonal buttresses and set-offs. Blocked west door with moulded jambs. 2-light window over with cusping and Y-tracery head. String-course. Thin loop in the bell-stage. Flat parapet. Half-octagonal newel-stair on south wall, terminates below the string. Nave, 3 bays externally, 3-light window with trefoil-cusped heads and tall panel tracery over. Quatrefoil- fleuron in head. Hollow-chamfered jambs, C19. North porch, C19, with a wide 2-centred archway with a continuous bracket-moulding. Gabled slate roof with a stone coping North doorway, partly late C14, with moulded jambs and 2-centred head. Chancel, with a 3-light east window of the same design. Label over. Interior: Tower-arch, moulded with 2 sets of responds and plain capitals. Nave: 'Gothic' refashioning into 4½ bays of quadripartite vaulting, bossed at the intersections, with responds and capitals, all coloured blue. Roof of pointed segmental profile. North doorway has a 'Gothic' surround with curvilinear head and standards to either side. Chancel roof, barrel vaulted and in 16 compartments. Fittings: Font, stone octagonal bowl with quatrefoils-in-circles. Octagonal stem and base, C15. Brasses: nave north wall, 1) to James Russell esquire and Alys (Wise) his wife, 1509, with shield- of-arms of Russell impaling Wise. 2) To John Russell and Elizabeth (Frocksmer), his wife, 1505, with shield-of-arms of Russell impaling Frocksmer. Both brasses reset in 'Cl6-style' stone frames. Wall Monument, chancel, to James Napier, Gent., brother of Sir Alexander Napier of Marchiston (sic). (Long inscription on descent of the Napier family from Scotland to Dorset.) Monument erected AD 1692. Open swan-necked pediment with skulls and central urn. Cornice with palmette and cherub. Pilasters garlanded with carved fruit and flowers. Coat of arms at bottom under cill. RCHM Dorset I, p 229 (1).

Listing NGR: SY5280588237

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Legacy System number:: 403955
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 229

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.