Church Of The Holy Trinity is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1968. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church Of The Holy Trinity
- WRENN ID
- first-flue-saffron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1968
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of the Holy Trinity is a parish church built in 1867 by J.P. Pritchett. It features polychrome brick with ashlar dressings and has a blue and green slate roof with stone gable copings. The church is designed in the Early English style and includes a nave with a south porch and a chancel with a north vestry. The gabled porch has double boarded doors with elaborate hinges set in a roll-moulded surround, which is supported by shafts with water-leaf capitals. A stone cross finial adorns the structure.
The nave has four bays with plate tracery in its two-light windows, and there is a buttress between the two eastern bays. The chancel is set back and has two simpler windows, along with a large three-light east window featuring plate tracery. All windows have recessed chamfered surrounds and dark brick arches with dark impost strings. The west window is large and has a six-foil design. The church has buttresses that are gabled at the chancel, and there is a small alteration to the north-east buttresses where a pipe was inserted to allow a clear sight-line from the vestry to the gates, reportedly for viewing the arrival of funerals. Some bricks at the east have been renewed. The roof is steeply pitched, featuring an east gabled bellcote on the nave and cross finials on the gable copings.
Inside, the church has painted brick with painted ashlar dressings. The roof is arch-braced on stone corbels, and the chancel has a waggon roof. The chancel arch is roll-moulded and supported by square pilasters with elaborately carved capitals. There are head-stops to the dripmould over the vestry door and a chamfered organ arch. All carving is now painted in vivid colors. A Star of David symbolizing the Trinity is present in the west window, created by L.C. Evetts. The church also features an octagonal stone font with symbols of the Evangelists carved in recessed panels, and an elaborately carved altar with painted relief panels in Gothic style. The reredos was reconstituted, and sculptures were added to the altar around 1913, as indicated by a brass plaque signed by Herbert Wauthie del., F. Osborne and Co. London.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2009
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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