Church of Holy Trinity
Church of Holy Trinity, Salop Road, Oswestry
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367341
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- Church of Holy Trinity, Salop Road, Oswestry
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367341
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Church of Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- Church of Holy Trinity, Salop Road, Oswestry
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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.
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, Salop Road, Oswestry
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Oswestry
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 29269 29400
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/03/2020
SJ 2929 SW
16/101
OSWESTRY C.P.
SALOP ROAD (west side)
Church of Holy Trinity
GV
II
Parish church. 1836-7 by Thomas Penson, extended and additions of 1894 by Eustace Frere. Regularly coursed grey limestone rubble with ashlar dressings, slate roof concealed by coped verges and eaves parapet. Original plan a single wide nave and chancel with apsidal sanctuary; baptistery and porch, south chapel and north-east tower and vestry added 1894. Nave: buttressed in five bays with tall broad cusped lancets and crocketed corner pinnacles; gabled baptistery at west end, with porch abutting at right-angles to north, cuts across former west window and flanking lancets (now all infilled). Short sanctuary, also with broad cusped lancets and with armorial shields as label stops, formerly had crenellated parapet and pinnacles, now replaced by late C20 splayed roof. South chapel: has Decorated-style window on east and two on south, late C20 concrete parish room in angle with nave. North-west tower has tall oak-shingled spire flanked by four corner spirelets and narrow gabled lucarnes above; gabled vestry adjoins to west.
Interior: rib-vaulting to sanctuary has dog-tooth ornament; panelled nave roof c. 1856 and arch-braced roof in bays to baptistery; fittings and furnishings all late C19 including stained glass to sanctuary and in east window on south side of nave. Holy Trinity has been the parish church of east and south-east Oswestry since 1842 and its spire forms a prominent local landmark.
Listing NGR: SJ2926829402
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 255575
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cranage, DHS, An Architectural Account of the Churches of Shropshire, (1908), 807
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Shropshire, (1958)
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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