CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1288702
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
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:: 1288702
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1956
List Entry Name:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
Statutory Address 1:: CHURCH OF THE 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:: CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY

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

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Chilfrome
National Grid Reference:: SY 59052 98795

Details

CHILFROME SY 59 NE CHILFROME VILLAGE

2/17 Church of The Holy Trinity 26-1-56 GV II *

Parish Church. C14 and C15 core, with Chancel rebuilt c.1852, and rest of church restored in 1864. Nave with bellcote, chancel North Vestry. Flint and rubble stone walls with freestone dressings. Clay tile roofs. Nave, north wall, C20 window and a doorway, blocking of a former window. South wall, 2 windows, eastern, of 3-lights trefoil-cusped, with a hollow-chamfered surround in a square head. Lozenge-leaded lights, C15. Two-light window, left of this, with falchion in head, C19. North Porch, entrance with pointed arch and chamfered jambs. Stone-coped gable and clay-tile roof. Plank door with ornamental hinges, C19. Chancel; east window, 3-light trefoil cusping with intersecting tracery, falchions and quatrefoil in head, C19. Label with head-stops. South wall has a pointed-arch doorway at centre, buttressed either side and joining over the doorway. 2-light trefoil-cusped windows. Interior: Chancel-arch with straight chamfers and sunk quadrant moulding, jambs into pointed arch without capitals, C14. Roof: arch-braced collar-beam type with scissor-bracing over, all carried on curved stone corbels of chembin fittings: font, C19, octagonal stone bowl and stem, spurred trefoils with foliage. Confiteor inscription. Pulpit, stone, approached through arch on right hand side of chancel-arch. Three-sided and corbelled-out. Lamb of God in spurred quatrefoil at centre. Running foliage in cornice. Piscina, chancel, stone with foliage banding under a trefoiled head. (R.C.H.M. Dorset I, p 98 (1).)

Listing NGR: SY5905298795

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Legacy System number:: 399003
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Inventory of Dorset I West, (1952), 98

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