Church of Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360831
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1360831
- Date first listed:
- 07-Jan-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY, CHURCH LANE
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, CHURCH LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Leicestershire
- District:
- Melton (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Buckminster
- National Grid Reference:
- SK8895921576
Details
SK 82 SE BUCKMINSTER CHURCH LANE
Sewstern
(east side)
2/4 Church of Holy
Trinity
II
Former chapel of Rest , now a parish church. Built in 1842 to the
designs of A. Salvin. Coursed and squared ironstone and
limestone ashlar with ashlar dressings and slate roofs.
Romanesque Revival style. Chamfered plinth and impost band.
Windows have diamond glazing. Projecting western bellcote, nave
and chancel under continuous roof. West end has central
projecting bellcote, 3 stages, with a string course with masks at
the corners. Central roll moulded round headed doorway with
plain hood mould and shafts with scallop capitals. Studded 2
leaf plank door with scrolled hinges. Beyond, on each side, a
round headed window with hood mould and shafts with scallop
capitals. Above, a similar central window. Above again, a
single bellcote with a chamfered round headed opening and coped
gable with kneelers. Nave and chancel, 4 bays, has at each
corner a shallow clasping buttress, and coped gables, that to
east with a cross. On each side, 4 round headed windows with
hood moulds and shafts with scallop capitals. East end has 2
larger round headed windows with linked hood moulds and shafts
with scallop capitals. Above, a round window. Interior has
wooden draught screen and kingpost roof with collars and wall
shafts. Fittings include a rectangular open-backed alabaster
pulpit with pointed blind arcades and marble shafts. C19 font
with stepped square base, round foot and stem, and bowl in the
form of a scallop capital. Traceried wooden reading desk
integral with the altar rail. C17 carved panel back armchair.
Plain stained pine benches. Boards with Decalogue, Lord's Prayer
and Creed. Memorials include a re-set marble war memorial
tablet, 1919.
Listing NGR: SK8895921576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 189776
- 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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