Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335935
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1335935
- Date first listed:
- 21-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Westmorland and Furness (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Casterton
- National Park:
- Yorkshire Dales
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 62460 79687
Details
SD 67 NW CASTERTON CASTERTON
19/37 Church of Holy Trinity
II
Church. 1831-3, chancel c1860, by Crowther. Rock-faced limestone with ashlar dressings, chancel of rock-faced sandstone with ashlar dressings. Nave with west tower; chancel with north organ loft. 6-bay nave has gabled south porch and small gabled vestry opposite. Wide eaves and verges, scrolly gutter brackets. Weathered buttresses alternate with lancet windows with continuous hoodmould; diagonal buttresses. Porch has pointed arch. Tower has diagonal buttresses, chamfered angles to bell stage; which has louvred pointed bell openings with hoodmoulds, cornice and ashlar parapet with raised angles. West face has window with 4-centred head and label mould, with triangular-headed window above, and clock face below bell opening. Vestry has east entrance and north window. Chancel has weathered base and sill course; steep roof with coped gable with cross. 3 stepped lancets to east end have hoodmoulds. South side has trefoil-headed entrance and 3 lancets; north side has lancet to east of gabled organ loft with weathered buttress and coped gable. Interior: Nave has scissor truss roof with collars and kingposts. Wall paintings by J. CLarke c1905-10, painted on canvas. 2 wall memorials with gothic detail; Rev W. Carus Wilson (1859) and W.W. Carus Wilson (1851). Windows have plain irregular glass in abstract patterns, but west windows have glass by H. Holiday 1894-7. Tower arch to baptistry; octagonal font on clustered shafts, wall tablets with gothic detail and window by Shrigley and Hunt. Hanoverian arms in relief over entrance. Chancel arch has corbelled trefoil shafts; arch to left has screen with open tracery and iron grille to arch. Chancel has collar rafter roof, reredos has blind tracery and relief panel, communion rail with wrought iron diaper work, timber pulpit, lectern and stalls with pierced tracery panels; most fittings probably by Paley and Austin. Wall paintings and stained glass by H. Holiday, 1894-7. Founded by Rev William Carus Wilson, who also founded the Clergy Daughters' School, attended by Charlotte Bronte (when it was at Cowan Bridge), and who is believed to be the model for a character in Jane Eyre.
Listing NGR: SD6246079687
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 75616
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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