Church of the Holy Trinity
CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1383399
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1383399
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Church of the Holy Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY
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
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abdon and Heath
- National Grid Reference:
- SO 56165 89591
Details
TUGFORD
SO58NE HOLDGATE
1312-1/12/207 Church of Holy Trinity
12/11/54
GV I
Church. C12 nave, C13 chancel and lower stage of tower, C15
upper stage of tower, restored 1894-5.
MATERIALS: stone rubble with ashlar dressings. Plain-tile roof
with ornamental ridge tiles and ashlar coped gables.
PLAN: chancel, nave with south porch, and west tower.
EXTERIOR: chancel with twin lancets in east wall. North wall
with restored pointed window with twin cusped lancet and
trefoil tracery, and lancet to right. South wall with
flat-headed window of triple cusped lancet tracery, lancet to
left. Pointed arched doorway to left. Sheila-na-gig set below
eaves.
Nave: north wall with 3 buttresses with ovolo-chamfered twin
cusped lancet windows between. South wall with 3 buttresses
with window to right and far left of restored ovolo-chamfered
twin cusped lights with quatrefoil over. Round-arched Norman
south doorway to left with 3 orders of shafts with carved
capitals of volutes and foliage, hollow chamfered abaci,
carved decorative beakhead inner arch, looped middle ring and
zigzag outer ring and pellet and zigzag decorated hoodmould
over. Late C19 rebuilt south porch.
Tower: 2-stage tower with battered plinth and roll mould, 2
string courses at the upper stage, each incorporating
gargoyles, stepped buttresses of former west wall of nave
incorporated into tower walls, flat headed lancets on 3 faces
at the bottom stage, bell-openings on each face at upper
stage, with pointed arched openings, round-headed arched
opening to the north and twin square-headed to the east.
Battlemented parapet with carved corner pinnacles.
INTERIOR: plastered nave and exposed stone chancel. C19
scissor-truss chancel roof. Aumbry in north wall and piscina
in south wall set under reused pointed arched head. Restored
pointed chancel arch. Restored 3-bay single-purlin nave roof
with 3 arch-braced collar and tie beam trusses and 3
arch-braced collar intermediate trusses. C14 tomb recess with
shallow pointed arch on the south wall. West wall has
round-headed lancet at high level pre-dating the tower, C15
tower doorway with stepped segmental arch.
Simple box pews, mostly of C17 doors fixed to C16 bench ends
with ovolo-moulded caps, one has a small flat reading desk
attached dated 1707. Pair of Jacobean seats with carved
canopies against south wall and armorial bearings of 8
quarters over. Richly ornamented Norman chalice font said to
be of the C12 Herefordshire school of carving. Simple C17 to
C18 communion rails with turned balusters.
Listing NGR: SO5616489592
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 483817
- 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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