FORMER CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL

FORMER CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL, SHIPSTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1382588
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1967
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL
Statutory Address:: FORMER CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL, SHIPSTON ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1382588
Date first listed:: 05-Apr-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Apr-2000
List Entry Name:: FORMER CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL, SHIPSTON ROAD

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Statutory Address:: FORMER CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY APPROXIMATELY 70 METRES EAST OF ETTINGTON PARK HOTEL, SHIPSTON ROAD

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Ettington
National Grid Reference:: SP2479647315

Details

ETTINGTON

SP24NW 1912-1/6/81 05/04/67

SHIPSTON ROAD, Alderminster (East side (off)) Former Church of Holy Trinity approx. 70m E of Ettington Park Hotel (Formerly Listed as: ETTINGTON Remains of old Holy Trinity Church)

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Shown on O.S. map as St. Nicholas Church ruins. Partly ruined C13 church. South transept and chapel restored for use as mortuary chapel for Shirley family c1825. Coursed limestone rubble with some ironstone and red sandstone ashlar; ashlar dressings; graduated stone slate roof to transept. PLAN: west tower, north arcade and west wall of north aisle, south wall of nave and chancel, and south transept with east chapel survive. EXTERIOR: C14 3-bay north arcade has hexagonal piers with moulded capitals, one with heads, and double-chamfered arches; 2 small 2-light straight-headed clerestory windows with Perpendicular tracery; to east end a pier with worn piscina recess, springers to north transept arch with very worn tablet to south side probably recording restoration, and a raking buttress to east end. West wall to lost lean-to north aisle has diagonal buttress and 4-light window with C17 straight mullions. South wall of chancel is sandstone ashlar, from east a 2-light straight-headed window with Perpendicular tracery, an offset buttress, a window with Y-tracery, a Tudor-headed entrance and a 2-light straight-headed window; to north, 2 sanctuary steps. Transept has coped gables, with bellcote to north and gable cross to south. Chapel has plinth and restored 3-light east window on sill course dated 1881; north side has a moulded arch with C19 infill including entrance with moulding and 4-centred head and 2 cusped spherical-triangle windows, 3 moulded corbels above; south gable end has diagonal buttresses and 3-light traceried window on sill course; 2 large offset buttresses to west wall, with lancet to north. South wall of nave has blocked 3-light straight-headed window to west of transept, with 2-light clerestory window above and sill and jamb of a window to west, and west of that an entrance with corbel above to north side. 3-stage tower has strip buttress to lower stage of each side and string courses; offset stair turret with corbel table clasps south west angle; top stage has c1200 2-light round-headed bell openings with cusped lattice infill; top cornice and restored crenellated parapet with angle pinnacles, 2 with wind vanes. South face has narrow light to buttress; west face has round-headed double-chamfered light to lower stage, narrow window with sash to middle stage. East face has tower arch of 3 orders, the inner order on corbels, impost band and hood; opening with balustrade and 3 former roof lines to middle stage. INTERIOR: tower has corbels with shields and entrance to stair turret with plank door and round-headed light over; deep splays to windows; plaque commemorating restoration of 1972-4 and one commemorating Underhill family (placed by American members of the family descended from 1630 emigrant); upper chamber noted as having terracotta panel of The Deposition by Agostino Corlini, 1725, and panelling to walls. Transept has arch-braced roof trusses, formerly with panelled ceiling by Rickman; chapel has shafts with foliate capitals to east window. FITTINGS: early C19 stalls by Rickman with cast-iron panels, and later encaustic tiles to chapel. Monuments: many monuments and wall tablets to members of the Shirley and Underhill families including: Anthony Underhill, d.1587, painted panel with verse; Frances Freckleton, d.1633, with effigy on chest with canopy on Corinthian columns; Earl Ferrers, d.1775, and Countess Ferrers, monument by JF Moore, veined marble plinth with inscription panel supports red and white marble sarcophagus with feet and oval inscription panel and reclining figure of George Shirley against grey marble stele with armorial bearing over white cornice; figures of Earl and Countess flank sarcophagus; plaque to right records that monument was intended for the church at Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, but was placed here by George Shirly when permission refused by Washington, Earl Ferrers. STAINED GLASS: glass to transept and chapel by Evie Hone, 1948-9, replacing glass from Winchester College which was returned there; north aisle west window also by Hone. Scheduled Ancient Monument. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-: 290; Shell Guides: Hickman D: Warwickshire: London: 1979-: 98).

Listing NGR: SP2479647315

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Legacy System number:: 482972
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 290
Hickman, D, 'Shell Guide' in Warwickshire, (), 98

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.