Church of the Holy Trinity

Details

SO 9076 - 9176 BELBROUGHTON CP CHURCH ROAD (west side) Belbroughton

12/17 Church of the Holy Trinity

16.11.67

GV II*

Parish church. C12 origins; altered C13; partly rebuilt C14; further alterations in C15 and C16; restored and extended 1894-5. Sandstone ashlar with plain tiled roofs partly behind parapets with cross finials at gable ends; older chancel has fishscale-tiled roof with decorative ridge tiles. West tower, three-bay nave with south aisle and south porch and three-bay chancel; C19 nave or three bays with two-bay chancel adjoins to north. Decorated style. West tower: C15; three stages with strings and continuous plinth; diagonal buttresses at west end; 3-light west window; loopholes in north and south side, of intermediate stage; 2-light louvred bell-chamber openings; embattled parapet and octagonal spire with ogee-headed lucarnes and weathervane. There is a stair turret in the south-east angle. Nave: mainly restored C13 work retaining some C12 fragments; south aisle set beneath catslide roof; buttresses at bay divisions; C12 window in west bay; 2-light C19 window in east bay and west end; C19 square-headed 3-light window at east end with adjacent restored C17 memorial to Richard Tristram. Central C19 gabled south porch has a heavily moulded archway with hoodmould and a pair of cusped openings in the side elevations. Round-headed south doorway incor- porates C12 work and has roll mouidings and double-shafted jambs. Chancel: C14; east end buttresses (angled on south side); continuous sill string; windows have hoodmoulds with head stops; 3-light east window with cusped lancet above; three 2-light windows and round-headed doorway in south elevation. C19 nave has buttresses at bay divisions (diagonal at west end); three-bay arcade at west end, outer bays are blind, central bay has double doorway; 4-light window with hoodmould and sill string above; ogee light in apex. North elevation has a 3- light, and two 2-light windows and an ogee-arched doorway which incorporates C14 stonework. C19 chancel has gabled buttresses with blind tracery at its east end, a 5-light east window with rectangular light above, a 2-light north- west window and north-east doorway with a cambered head. Interior: old nave has a largely C19 south arcade of two chamfered orders on concave octagonal columns. The north arcade is a C19 reconstruction and has tall slender piers. C16 chancel arch is Similar to south arcade; in the south jamb is the entrance to and remains of the rood stair and also a cusped opening. There is a C15 tower arch. Nave and chancel roofs are C17 with collar and tie-beam trusses. On the eastern nave tie-beam is written "WT: 1654: GW" and on the western chancel tie-beam is written "Laus Deo/ This Roofe was new built at the/ charge of Richard Tristram Rector/ 1660". The old chancel has a large ogee- arched tomb recess, a C15 sedilia and a C13 reset piscina. C17 panelled reredos and altar rails. Traceried chancel screen. South aisle has a C13 cusped piscina and also the remains of wall paintings. C15 font with octagonal bowl and quatrefoil panels. Jacobean octagonal pulpit with dragon frieze, strap- work and grotesque corbels; the lectern is of similar date and design. Memorials: there are.numerous C18 and C19 memorials in the old chancel, some of which are ornately detailed. Glass: some medieval fragments in a nave window. South aisle east wndow and south chancel window by Kempe. This substantial parish church has retained a considerable proportion of its medieval fabric and its C17 roofs and furnishings are of particular interest. (VCH 3(i) p 117: BoE, p 77-8).

Listing NGR: SO9192276865

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Sources

Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Worcester, (1924), 117
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Worcestershire, (1968), 77-8

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