Holy Trinity Church is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 October 1969. Church.

Holy Trinity Church

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Country
England
Date first listed
20 October 1969
Type
Church
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Holy Trinity Church is a parish church built in 1842 by J. & B. Green, located near the site of a medieval chapel. The church features a tower and vestry added in 1884. It is constructed from squared, tooled-and-margined stone with stone dressings and has a slate roof. The design includes a broad nave and a small polygonal sanctuary, with the tower being more elaborately designed in a free Gothic style.

The tower consists of three tall stages with stepped angle buttresses. The south side has double doors adorned with decorative ironwork and a moulded arch featuring elaborate foliage stops on the hoodmould. Above the doors is a string course with an inscription that reads, "To the glory of God for the benefit of His People A.D. mdccclxxxiv." The second stage contains a pointed window with a hoodmould, while the belfry openings showcase Y tracery beneath a string course that forms a hoodmould. The tower is capped with a round-arched corbel table that supports a stepped moulded parapet, featuring the Trevelyan arms on the left. The west wall of the tower has a tall lancet window in the lower stage and a clock face above.

The nave has four bays, with both the north and south walls featuring a plinth, sill string, and a continuous hoodmould over pointed windows. A corbel table supports a projecting eaves course, and stepped buttresses are set back at angles between the bays. The gables are coped with kneelers and a bracelet finial cross on the east gable. The sanctuary has similar detailing, except for blind windows in the side walls. The vestry includes a two-light mullioned window on the north side.

Inside, there is a moulded arch leading to the sanctuary and a tall triple-chamfered arch to the tower. The church features an early 19th-century font and an elaborate barrel roof with an embattled wall-plate, enriched purlins, braces that spring from heraldic corbels, and carved bosses. Notably, there are eight 13th-century sepulchral slabs set into the internal walls of the tower (six) and vestry (two), including an unusual incised effigy that was partly re-cut in the 19th century. These slabs were discovered in 1795 when the footings of the old chapel were excavated for building stone.

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