Church of Holy Trinity

CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366983
Date first listed:
21-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:
Church of Holy Trinity
Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1366983
Date first listed:
21-Mar-1968
List Entry Name:
Church of Holy Trinity
Statutory Address 1:
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Worthen with Shelve
National Grid Reference:
SJ 34092 01489

Details

WORTHEN C.P. HOPE SJ 30 SW

5/134 Church of Holy - Trinity 21.3.68 - II

Parish church. 1843 by Edward Haycock. Uncoursed limestone rubble with ashlar dressings; machine tile roof has coped verges and plain corbel table. Nave with west bellcote, chancel, south porch and north vestry; lancet style. Nave: buttressed in 5 bays, broad lancets with hoodmoulds and continuous moulded cill band; gabled porch in second bay from west on south and gabled bellcote with twin pointed bell openings over 3-light west window; gabled vestry in second bay from west on north. Short one-bay chancel; broad lancet with hoodmould on south; east window similar to west window of nave but with hoodmoulds. Interior: multi-strutted collar and tie beam roof like that at Church of Holy Trinity, Middleton, Chirbury C.P. (q.v.); otherwise very plain, main feature -of interest being west gallery supported on 2 cast- iron columns; plain pointed chancel arch. Majority of fittings and furnishings including stained glass in east window (1867) are late C19. The church is set in a picturesque churchyard and is approached by a small wooden bridge (not included in this list) over a stream to south. B.O.E. p.152; D. H. S. Cranage, The Churches of Shropshire, Part 7 (1905) p.549.

Listing NGR: SJ3409201489

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Legacy System number:
257465
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 549
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958), 152

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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