Old Holy Trinity Church
OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, OLD CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324171
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Old Holy Trinity Church
- Statutory Address:
- OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, OLD CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1324171
- Date first listed:
- 05-Sept-1960
- List Entry Name:
- Old Holy Trinity Church
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, OLD 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:
- OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, OLD CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bridport
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 47529 91753
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17/09/2014
SY 49 SE
2/31
BOTHENHAMPTON,
OLD CHURCH ROAD
Old Holy Trinity Church
5-9-60
I
Former Parish Church, now in the care of The Churches Conservation Trust. c.C14 and C15 Chancel and south tower. Nave demolished 1889. Coursed rubble stone walls and stone quoins. Stone slab roof and stone gable-copings, medieval at east end, C19 at west end. South Tower of 2-3 stages with a string above stage 2. Embattled parapet with gargoyles. One plain square-headed bell-opening on the east face, and west face. 2-light trefoil-cusped lights with panel tracery. Renewed label and mullion, C20. Short 2-stage buttresses. Windows: north wall of chancel, 2-light with ogival trefoil-cusped heads in a square head. East window blocked, presumably in C18. Label with head-stops survives. West doorway, pointed arch with continuous bracket-moulding, c.C14. Plank door, studded with 2 strap-hinges. Interior: large pointed arch inside the west wall, with a straight chamfer (former chancel arch?) 2-centred arch to the tower, plain, chamfered jambs with spur stops. Font: plain stone bowl, c.C13, on a C20 stem and base. Sanctuary rails and reredos, turned balusters with top rail ramped to the corners. Fluted pilaster posts at the corners. Wooden reredos with broken pediment, and gilded urn at centre, fluted pilasters and Composite capitals. Panelling beneath the pediment contains Lord's Prayer; Ten Commandments, and the Creed, c18. Roof: 3 bays of arch-braced collar construction, with one set of butted purlins. Internal measurements: c.21 foot x 10 it 6 inches. Tower measures 7 ft x 6 ft.
Source: RCHM Dorset I, p 29(1), F P Pitfield: Dorset Parish Churches, A-D, p 84)
Listing NGR: SY4752991753
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 105051
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 29
Pitfield, FP, Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 84
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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