Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282493
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282493
- Date first listed:
- 31-Mar-1992
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH STREET
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, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- City of Wolverhampton (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 93121 99830
Details
WOLVERHAMPTON
SO99NW CHURCH STREET, Heathtown
895-1/5/69 (West side)
Church of Holy Trinity
GV II
Church. 1849-52. By Edward Banks. Sandstone ashlar with tile
roofs. Nave with lean-to aisles, south west steeple and north
porch; chancel and north vestry. Decorated Gothic style.
Weathered buttresses; sill courses; coped gables with crosses.
3-bay chancel has 5-light east window and 3-light windows to
north and south; buttresses have traceried gablets. Vestry
under catslide roof has gabled bay with end stack; 3
ogee-headed lights to east, 2-light window to north, and
pointed entrance. Nave has 6-bay clerestory with paired
pointed lights between flat buttresses; 4-light west window,
buttress to left has beast corbels; aisles have 2-light
windows with head stops to hoods; 3-light south aisle east and
north aisle west windows; gabled north porch has entrance of
one order with foliate capitals; return lights. 3-stage tower
has setback buttresses; gabled south entrance of 3 orders,
Tudor and ball flower, headstops to hood, applied tracery to
door; 3-light west window with reticulated tracery; stair
lights to filled-in angles of buttress to left; lancets to 2nd
stage; 3rd stage recessed with pilaster buttresses and corbel
table; 2-light triple-chamfered bell openings, head stops;
broach spire has clock faces and 2 tiers of lucarnes.
INTERIOR: deep-arch-braced roofs on wall shafts; organ loft to
north of chancel; chancel arch on shafts; nave arcades on
quatrefoil piers; rich arcaded reredos; open traceried chancel
screen, 1902; stone pulpit and octagonal font. Wall memorials,
include that to Anne Jenks (d.1917), portrait in aedicule;
encaustic tiles to chancel and encaustic memorial tiles to
nave; glass to chancel and some to aisles.
A well-proportioned example of an Ecclesiological church with
good interior features.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London:
1974-: P.321).
Listing NGR: SO9312199830
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 378370
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Staffordshire, (1974), 321
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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