Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, HOTWELL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282233
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, HOTWELL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1282233
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jan-1959
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, HOTWELL 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, HOTWELL ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Bristol (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 57166 72569
Details
BRISTOL
ST5772NW HOTWELL ROAD, Hotwells 901-1/14/1461 (North side) 08/01/59 Church of Holy Trinity
II*
Church. 1829. By CR Cockerell. Interior by T Burrough. Bath stone ashlar and a slate roof. Open plan. Neoclassical style. Plain E elevation, N elevation is 5 bays of round-arched windows. W front in 3 sections defined by wide pilasters, the centre one breaking forward, with a deep cornice. A high rusticated plinth to a sill band and tall round-arched windows, either side of the central section of 3 doorways with pedimented lintels on volute consoles and plain jambs, the middle one taller, with above them a central, round-arched window and plain flat-headed ones either side. The dominant elevation is that to the S, a symmetrical 5-window range of round-arched windows, with the rusticated plinth, pilasters and cornice, and a massive porch with an open pediment on giant Doric pilasters, enclosing a tall coffered niche. Inside it a round-arched window and a door like that in the W end, a plat band and beneath it 2 smaller side doors. In the tympanum is a sculpture of the Holy Spirit by Tyley. Above the pediment is a tall plinth and clock, and an open bell turret with pilasters, a cornice with acroteria, and a ball finial. INTERIOR: completely rebuilt after being gutted during World War II. Nothing survives of the original cruciform, galleried interior, except the use of a shallow glazed dome. An impressive and powerfully-articulated facade. (Gomme A, Jenner M and Little B: Bristol, An Architectural History: Bristol: 1979-: 247; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: North Somerset and Bristol: London: 1958-: 411).
Listing NGR: ST5716672569
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 379826
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958), 411
Gomme, A H, Jenner, M, Little, B D G, Bristol, An Architectural History, (1979), 247
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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