Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, HALFORD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382579
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, HALFORD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1382579
- Date first listed:
- 02-Aug-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Apr-2000
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity and St Thomas of Canterbury
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY AND ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, HALFORD ROAD
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 AND ST THOMAS OF CANTERBURY, HALFORD ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ettington
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 26695 49046
Details
ETTINGTON
SP24NE HALFORD ROAD
1912-1/7/69 (West side)
02/08/72 Church of the Holy Trinity and St
Thomas of Canterbury
(Formerly Listed as:
ETTINGTON
Church of the Holy Trinity)
II
Church. 1902-3. By C Ford Whitcomb. Coursed squared limestone
with ashlar dressings; tile roofs. Wide eaves; flush quoins
and coped gables. Stone internal stack.
PLAN: 3-bay nave with north-east vestry and south porch; 2-bay
chancel with north-east tower and south chapel.
EXTERIOR: windows have Perpendicular tracery. Chancel has
gable cross over 3-light window with hood carried up as
fillet; foundation stone dated 1902. North and south sides
have 2-light straight-headed and traceried windows. 3-stage
tower has one diagonal buttress with gable dated 1909,
octagonal stair turret to west angle; 2-light
double-chamfered-mullioned window to east and similar 4-light
window to north; 2nd stage has double-chamfered light to 3
sides; bell stage has paired 2-light traceried and louvred
bell openings with inscriptions taken from the Te Deum on
lozenge panels between pairs of openings; partly pierced
panelled parapet and recessed lead-clad super-structure.
Chapel has 2-light straight-headed and traceried window to
east and west; south entrance with double-chamfered opening
and flanking straight-headed windows of 2 cusped lights.
Nave has gable crosses; north side has 2 offset buttresses and
2 straight-headed and traceried windows, blind bay to west;
vestry to east has north gable with entrance and window of 2
cusped lights, upper double-chamfered cusped light with hood;
window of 3 cusped lights to west; south side similar, 2
windows to east of pointed entrance with continuous mouldings
and paired plank doors has gabled porch with enriched open
timber-framing on low stone walls; bronze sundial to one
buttress. Several lead rainwater heads and downspouts.
INTERIOR: reported as having late C18 pulpit from former
Church of St Thomas a Becket and wall monuments of 1784 and
1801.
The church replaced the Church of St Thomas a Becket,
1798-1913, of which the tower only remains (qv).
(Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth:
1966-: 290-1).
Listing NGR: SP2669549046
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 482963
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 290-291
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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