Holy Trinity Church and Lamp House Immediately South West
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH AND LAMP HOUSE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST, CHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389368
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Trinity Church and Lamp House Immediately South West
- Statutory Address:
- HOLY TRINITY CHURCH AND LAMP HOUSE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST, CHURCH ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1389368
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Holy Trinity Church and Lamp House Immediately South West
- Statutory Address 1:
- HOLY TRINITY CHURCH AND LAMP HOUSE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST, CHURCH 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:
- HOLY TRINITY CHURCH AND LAMP HOUSE IMMEDIATELY SOUTH WEST, CHURCH ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Camborne
- National Grid Reference:
- SW6349139350
Details
1535/0/10025
20-JUL-01
CAMBORNE
CHURCH ROAD
Holy Trinity Church and lamp-house immediately south-west
II
Anglican church. 1854; by J.P. St Aubyn; refitted early C20 by Canon J.S. Carah. Granite rubble with granite dressings. Slate roofs with gable ends.
PLAN: Nave and chancel, north aisle, north vestry and south porch.
Early English style.
EXTERIOR: Simple lancets with trefoil heads; triple lancet at east end; catslide roofs over north aisle and vestry on north side of chancel, also with lancets; small 2-light west window and granite gabled bellcote over west gable; granite gabled porch at west end of south side of nave with moulded 2-centred arch doorway, wrought-iron gates and slate-on-edge floor, scissor-braced roof and War memorials with carved relief panels; chamfered 2-centred arch inner doorway. To the west of the porch a circa early C20 detached lamp-house, its ashlar front with a wide doorway and with a slate mono-pitch roof.
INTERIOR: Plastered walls. 4-bay granite north arcade with double-chamfered 2-centred arches and circular piers with plain moulded capitals; large double-chamfered 2-centre chancel arch; scissor-braced nave and chancel roofs. Early C20 refitting includes seating with carved bench ends, choir stalls, screen, altar rail, altar, reredos with painting of the First Eucharist, dado panelling, lectern, pulpit with painted triptych and organ, all richly carved; bench ends carved by Hunt of Plymouth and dado carved by William Mitchell of Pendonds; aumbry incorporates fragment of Medieval bench end; font and other fittings. Stained glass windows.
SOURCES: [1] Buildings of England, p.135. [2] Betjeman, J. Cornwall, a Shell Guide, pp.94 and 95.
Listing NGR: SW6349139350
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 488025
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Cornwall, (1972), 135
Betjeman, J, Shell Guide in Cornwall, (), 94 95
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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