Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, WIDDRINGTON VILLAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1371045
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, WIDDRINGTON VILLAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1371045
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1969
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY, WIDDRINGTON VILLAGE
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 THE HOLY TRINITY, WIDDRINGTON VILLAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Northumberland (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Widdrington Village
- National Grid Reference:
- NZ 25479 95751
Details
WIDDRINGTON WIDDRINGTON VILLAGE NZ 29 NE 6/91 Church of the Holy Trinity 20.10.69 I
Parish Church. Late C12 core remodelled and extended in mid-C14. North aisle demolished in medieval period and rebuilt, with addition of organ chamber and vestry, in late C19. Squared stone with dressings. C19 parts rough-faced stone; slate roofs. 2-bay aisled nave with south porch, chancel with south chapel and C19 additions on north.
Porch, with hollow-chamfered pointed arch under coped gable, has low stone benches and door with keeled mouldings and hood with rosette stops. To east two C14 windows, each of 2trefoiled ogee-headed lights with pierced spandrels under a square head with hoodmould; large stepped buttress to east. West end has chamfered plinth and large roughly-squared masonry of C12 type; three 2-light windows and large stepped buttresses all C19. Coped gable and gabled bellcote. North wall of nave continuous with organ chamber: Four 2-light windows copied from south wall.
Chapel has two similar C14 windows on south and 3-light C19 east window. Chancel has chamfered plinth; taller similar 2-light south window and coeval 3-light east window with curvilinear tracery under pointed arch with hood, flanked by stepped buttresses, that to south C19. Vestry has re-set medieval door on north with pointed chamfered arch, C13 cross slab as internal lintel.
Interior: 2-bay north arcade has pointed double-chamfered arches, hooded towards nave, on round pier; moulded capital with square abacus: 3-bay arcade on south with octagonal piers. Chancel arch and arch dividing south aisle from chapel also spring from eastern pier. Cut-back stoup by south door; hollow-chamfered piscina in south chapel. Chancel has C19 arch to organ chamber and moulded sill string on east,stepped down at south end. Sill of south window lowered to form sedilia with integral shelf and pillar piscina; second piscina to east has trefoiled hollow-chamfered arch, shelf and lockers. Two tomb recesses on north have keeled mouldings and moulded hoods: the eastern has a pointed arch with Widdrington arms at the apex, the western a lower segmental arch and a small cross slab set into its sill.
Listing NGR: NZ2547695750
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 238234
- 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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