Holy Trinity Church
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1312353
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Trinity Church
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1312353
- Date first listed:
- 11-Oct-1961
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Trinity Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, CHURCH 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:
- HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbots Leigh
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 54442 74018
Details
ST 57 SW ABBOTS LEIGH CHURCH ROAD (north-west side)
4/3 Holy Trinity Church 11.10.61 G.V. II*
Parish Church (Anglican). C15; restored and partially rebuilt after a fire in 1847-48. West tower, nave, north and south aisles, south porch, chancel and vestry. Coursed rubble with freestone dressings; slate roof to nave, double Roman tiles to chancel. All in a Perpendicular style. West tower: 3 stages with diagonal buttresses; embattled parapet with plain pinnacles; polygonal stair tower with spirelet projects at north-east corner; 2-light bell chamber opening, 4-light west window; west door under hood mould with carved head stops. North and south aisles: embattled parapets; 2-light windows with cusped heads to tracery. Gabled projecting south porch. Chancel: 3-light east window as south window. Interior. South doorway has moulded surround with fleurons. 3 bay north and south arcades: the south one has piers of engaged shafts alternating with four hollows, 4-centred arches; the north one is C19. Plain chancel arch. The tower arch has a chamfered outer order and a wave moulded inner order. Mid C19 nave roof of arch-braced collar beam trusses and 3 tiers of cusped windbraces; 6-light dormer windows. Early C19 ribbed roof to chancel. Pulpit, C19 in a Perpendicular style. Font: C19, in a perpendicular style; ashlar, octagonal. Monuments. Tower: Miles funeral hatchment; P.J. Miles, died 1845, by E.H. Bailey, marble neo-classical monument with an inscribed plinth on brackets, and 2 female mourners (one seated) which flank a draped vase on a pedestal bearing the Miles arms. Nave: Francis Short, died 1853 by Tyley of Bristol, urn on a pedestal and a female mourning figure. South aisle: Mark Davis, died 1783, marble plaque with bowed ends and swan neck pediment; six- poster late C16 ashlar tomb, thought-to be Lady Jane Norton (no figure) fluted Ionic columns, fluted frieze with segmental pediment and arms. Chancel: Sir George Norton, died 1715, marble baroque inscribed plaque flanked by Corinthian columns which support a plain entablature, surmounted by concave sided pediment, side volutes rest on a plinth which has portrait medallions. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England : North Somerset and Bristol, 1958).
Listing NGR: ST5444274018
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 33399
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: North Somerset and Bristol, (1958)
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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