OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH

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-Sep-1960
List Entry Name:: OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
Statutory Address:: OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, OLD CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1324171
Date first listed:: 05-Sep-1960
List Entry Name:: OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
Statutory Address 1:: OLD HOLY TRINITY CHURCH, OLD CHURCH ROAD

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:: 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

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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

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Legacy System number:: 105051
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1952), 29
Pitfield, FP , Dorset Parish Churches, (1981), 84

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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.